TomC
Bless Your Heart!
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You say this as though it's a benefit to Mankind or something. It's not.Lowering corporate taxes has created billionaires who are looking to stake out their territory in space and develop their monopoly even further there.I consider this a goalpost type argument.
Of course lowering taxes creates jobs. The important factor is what the ratio is.
The promise of trickle-down is that the job creation will grow the economy enough to cover the costs of the tax breaks. The reality is that we get nothing like that much economic growth, trickle-down policies end up either cutting government services or moving the tax bite down the income range. It's been an abject failure every time it's been tried.
One of the standard definitions of insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result. That's where trickle-down economics is by now. (Of course, they're not actually insane, but rather it's a cover for what they really want--lower taxes with no regard for the consequences.)
You are looking at it backwards. Pretty soon, civilians will be able to go to space for a reasonable fee. It will become very common in a decade or two. Wouldn't have happened without rich people having the capital to start it. Trickle down.
It's more like a way for the wealthy elites to insulate themselves from the disastrous consequences of what they're doing to Mankind and Earth.
Honestly, outside of scientific exploration, "man in space" looks more like a cancer metatacizing than growth. And machines are far more capable of scientific exploration than humans.
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Tom