Spaceport Equality Act
tax incentive, please click
here. Reading between the line$ a bit, are the various spaceport authority representatives linked below investing more energy and money trying to get that spaceport tax incentive through Congress than they are in trying to attract taxpayers' handouts from federal and local governments? If not then are their long term business plans really as sound as they might claim to believe that they are? Or could it be true that they are really just hoping to set up highly redundant "federal trough-feeding operations" at taxpayers' expense while merely pretending to be useful, like some critics allege?
The spaceport enthusiasts' goals seem rather intriguing on paper at least, but are they genuinely pressing for any sufficiently significant, status quo-changing and pro-entrepreneurial reforms within the same government from which they simultaneously seek tax-subsidized handouts? Or might there be a conflict of interest between asking for an entrepreneurially friendly streamlined government while nevertheless asking for monetary favor$ from its self-perpetuating bureaucrats? For example, what did the spaceport enthusiasts do to oppose the wasteful and much maligned X-33 Shuttle replacement fiasco, which practically nobody else vocally or even tacitly supported except for some dependent government bureaucrats and a very small handful of anointed contractors? Both the X-33 and the spaceport movement are criticized as depending almost completely upon wasteful governmental pork barrel spending. Is this merely a coincidence?
Please feel free to let us know what you decide after candidly asking these subsidy-seekers (and their elected congressional representatives) for a sincere response in our democracy. We do not condemn their supposed goals of self-fulfillment, but like a growing quantity of skeptics we find their coziness with the stagnating status quo to be increasingly puzzling. This is especially the case considering our country's growing national debt and also their claims that a commercial space transportation industry really could profit from what they want to offer (even as they strive apparently far less for tax incentives than they do for government handouts). Hopefully their actions will someday silence their entrepreneurial critics?
