Posted on 05/05/2017 8:29:30 PM PDT by null and void
Liberals are salivating at the idea of taxing cars by the distance they travel, to better rake in money for their nefarious purposes. In California, they are taking the idea one step farther, planning to tax space rockets by the mile as well.
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Not in the Nasa budget. Sorry Moonbeams.
In addition to being a ridiculously bad idea this tax may also be illegal. This is an area of interstate and international commerce that is preempted by the Federal Government.
Just think of all the deadly CO2 and H2O gasses these rockets spew out! Of course they should be taxed! Don’t you want to save the planet? :)
” The only place in the US you can legally launch a manned private (non-NASA) civilian spacecraft is the Mojave Spaceport in California. The FAA has yet to approve any other spaceports.”
You got me there. In researching I find it is the first, and only, facility to be licensed in the United States for horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft, being certified as a spaceport by the Federal Aviation Administration on June 17, 2004. They have tested a number of flights but all have been non-orbital at this point, so there is a question if California can tax for a space flight that never happened.
I find it interesting that they were licensed as a “reusable spacecraft” site. Are they going to find the boosters used to get the payload in space when they finally go there? That’s going to be an undertaking.
rwood
You are NOT a GOOD LIBERAL. It is $480,000 - $240,000 out and $240,000 back. Now pay up.
“Wow. Just wow.”
Yep. I think only CA could come up with an idea this daft.
Watch for an exodus of space travel from the “Golden State”.
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