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This can't be stressed enough. The military does a lot of R&D spending, but it's nowhere near as beneficial to the U.S. or the world than if we encouraged more
by passivepinetree 9y ago
This can't be stressed enough. The military does a lot of R&D spending, but it's nowhere near as beneficial to the U.S. or the world than if we encouraged more space programs with that money.
It's unbelievably depressing to me that we could be leading civilization into a multi planetary age but choose not to.
- sol_remmy 9y agoThe [space program] does a lot of R&D spending, but it's nowhere near as beneficial to the U.S. or the world than if we encouraged reduction in taxes so [private consumers and businesses] can instead spend that money.
- cloudwalking 9y agoHistory has demonstrated again and again that tax breaks are not an effective economic stimulus.