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NASA's total budget is approximately one half of one percent (0.5%) of the federal budget. Even at its peak in the 1960s, it never reached 5%. Seems pretty reas
by btgeekboy 4y ago
NASA's total budget is approximately one half of one percent (0.5%) of the federal budget. Even at its peak in the 1960s, it never reached 5%. Seems pretty reasonable.
- hollerith 4y agoSince you think it's so reasonable, would you please pay my share? If distributed equally among the US population, it is about $75 a year per person, which of course comes out to about $6.25 a month.
- whateveracct 4y agoI wonder if that's actually your share given your tax bracket though. I'm actually not familiar enough to guess.
- Aperocky 4y agoNow here comes a completely unreasonable (maybe not) idea: Democratized budget. Every year tax payers specify where their tax money goes. 50% of their taxes will go directly where they decreed it be. The other 50% and any debt can be allocated by the congress. There should also be options of "Let congress handle it" and "whatever the previous years makeup was" and options to adjust from there. NASA will probably be better funded, by a huge margin.
- btgeekboy 4y agoAt what cost though? What programs would suffer funding decreases? This is why we elect representatives. It’s not a perfect system but the average citizen would not have the context necessary to make direct decisions on it.
- pfdietz 4y agoI like this approach. If we divide the federal budget into sufficiently small chunks, all the spending is reasonable, and we don't have to worry about deficits and such. Utterly brilliant reasoning!