Well, however much I love the space enthusiasm, it is enraging that they pay no taxes
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its enraging that the rest of us pay taxes
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This isn't "space." This is Six Flags.
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If they paid taxes commensurate with their earnings, I'd agree with you.
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Most of what you're talking about is unrealized capital gains (increases in value of stock you haven't sold yet), which basically nobody pays taxes on. (Nor should they - it discourages productive investment).
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Imagine a crab bucket but scaled up until it encompasses the entire gravity well. That's basically Left Twitter's take on space in general. "People are still starving here!" There will always be something "more important" than space, right up until the asteroid kills us all.
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You know, we could feed everyone and properly fund nasa, but instead the bald man goes to space for 3 minutes
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Of course there isn't a fixed pie. But if the system is rigged, the Billionaires' share (!) is going to grow and we're gonna end up in some Neofeudalism with Billionaires instead of Lords and Lieges on top.
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It's a policy failure because we killed the public space program to fund a private one. The Space Shuttle helped build the ISS and put Hubble into space - both of which are public ventures. We're funding directly and indirectly the wrong thing.
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If we still had a functioning space program, then I'd agree with you about it being inspiring.
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