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NASA doesn’t have the funds to get to Mars alone, Ted Cruz says
- pjc50 8y agoNobody ever says "The US Army doesn't have funds to go to Iraq alone", somehow. Easy enough to find a trillion dollars for that.
- jandrese 8y agoThe headline is basically wrong. It should read "Congress doesn't have the political will to go to Mars".
- aiyodev 8y agoThat’s the opposite of what the article is about.
- freeone3000 8y agoThey mention "billions" as if it's a huge number - the CBO charts are all denoted in billions. It's the smallest number worth mentioning from the perspective of the federal government. The federal government decides the budget of NASA. Ted Cruz is saying that none of the money, not even the new billions they're getting from tariffs, or the old 34 billion from customs duties or the 84 billion from excise taxes, or even the income tax, is worth diverting to go to Mars, so we should rely on private industry. I get he's proclaiming the benefits of a public-private partnership, but it still feels suspiciously like he's declaring it can't happen because he says it won't.
- tabtab 8y agoRegarding Iraq, we still owe for that. USA debt is now Yuuuuge! What GOP "found" funds for was tax-cuts for the rich.
- Sindisil 8y agoSo then, expect the "space industrial complex" to augment the current military industrial complex?
- DSierra117 8y agoNASA didn't have the funds to get me a monitor with an HDMI port for 6 months when I worked there. They absolutely do not have the money to get to Mars.
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