> If you have $100,000 in research money to spend, where do you think you will get more for it, putting it into private industry as buying stock in a company or paying it as tax to government?
A piddly $100,000? Private industry. But a billion? Government R&D. FOr the simple fact that the government has the capability to carry out or direct research projects that private industry would *not* tackle.
> You, like all statists, think that you know best how to spend the money that other people busted their buns for.
Blah, blah, blah. Do you get this twitchy when someone suggests that DARPA or an Air Froce or Army research lab should study such-and-such? Are you still cheesed off about the billiosn spent on the Manhattan project? Couldn't private industry have done it better?
You make my case for me. Government R&D is typical Marxist central planning. Use up a vast quantity of money and you might get something good and you might not, but you don't have any way to tell because there aren't any price signals attached. Further you will never see the true costs. Like I said pay for your own fantasies or if there is so much value in space, form a company to exploit it and get rich.