How will they know what to spend the tax dollars on?
Please understand, it's not that I don't look forward to man colonizing the moon, I just recognize government bureaucracy is horribly inefficient at applying resources to solve a problem. The free market, guided by the good steward of supply, demand, and profit will get us to the moon with the best technology and least waste.
I want, at a dead minimum, for an equivalent amount of other largesse to be repealed before government funds, taken at the point of a gun, are diverted to fulfill this political goal.