There goes our taxes....
It's all just a cover to "acclimate" the masses into coughing up more money for NASA in the near future because we're starting to realize that future funding for this particular bureaucratic mess is just more money down a rat hole. Anyone care to guess how many millions it took to get a vaccum cleaner sized lint bag of "meteor dust" back from space a few months ago???
The need to flee to space is just an excuse to fleece the taxpayer.
No taxes at all need be consumed. Simply revoke the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and Free Enterprise will be happy to cough up the money -- for a potential profit.
Then all you need is a good business plan. See above.