“The sooner the government stops interfering with commercial activities in space...”
Good, campaign for that then, and more power to you. Just don’t try to rob me to fund socialism for aerospace engineers in the meantime.
“Good, campaign for that then, and more power to you. Just don’t try to rob me to fund socialism for aerospace engineers in the meantime.”
The primary purpose of the U.S. space program has been to develop the technologies necessary to fulfill the Constitution’s mandated obligation to maintain the national defense. You can always argue any provisions for the national defense is associated with the efforts of the community and therefore socialist in nature, but doing so would rob any form of republic of its ability to mount an effective defense force in a technological culture.
“Good, campaign for that then, and more power to you. Just don’t try to rob me to fund socialism for aerospace engineers in the meantime.”
Governmental funding of space technologies and their applications to the Defence and General Welfare of the Republic are powers authorized by the Constitution:
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States