> I get the desire to reduce government spending. It looks like sticker shock seeing budgets in the billions and trillions. This is an international issue bein

> I get the desire to reduce government spending. It looks like sticker shock seeing budgets in the billions and trillions. This is an international issue being funded by the US taxpayer regardless of their own utilization of said services. Programs like these need to exist, but services like starlink should be the ones footing the bill. The military and weather services would need larger budgets to fund their portion of this effort so some of it would come back to "general taxes" but a much smaller amount. Meanwhile, All those other groups and nations with launch capabilities and a vested intrest in NOT having issues could be contributing too. > Let us get/return to more reasonable principles for doing these budget evaluations and requests. These efforts need to be funded with a tax to support them, and not all be drawn from the same general fund. It would make the arguments about "taxes" and "spending" much more reasonable.