Rand should pander to NASA

[RandRevolution]

Seems like it can only win you votes unless you talk about building bases and making a state there.

 

[lx43]

I agree but I'd like to see him do it without the govt spending a cent on it. One way he can do this is by proposing a law that promotes business interest in space by saying any activity (such as launches into space, suborbital space flight, mining asteroids, manufacturing, and any other good or service) that occurs in zero G environment is tax free. Any investment that is made to get the business going is a 100% tax credit against current income.

Why should the govt be getting any taxes off of something that doesn't even occur in its boundaries?

 

[supermario21]

Territorial taxes in space lol!

 

[Anti-Neocon]

 

[jmdrake]

LOL. Uhh.....no. As much as I love the thought of space travel, this is a bad idea. And I'm not just talking politically either. Once you start saying the government is the answer, whether though increased spending or targeted tax credits, you open the door to anything and you no longer have the moral ground to oppose other wasteful spending. Think about it. Why is space travel any more important than developing "green energy"?

If someone that I totally trusted told me today "John I'll give you a choice. If you'll pay an extra X dollars per month over the next Y years I guarantee that at the end of that period America will be 100% free of foreign energy sources, and the energy created here will be virtually non polluting and will not produce nuclear waste that has to be stored thousands of years, or if you take that same money and spend it on a space program I promise you that with in the same period of time we will have sent a man to Mars and back" I'd definitely take the energy investment. (I will admit a trip to Alpha Centuri and back might be more tempting, but only if I was on the trip.)

 

[KrokHead]

Maybe he can reconstruct that "Death Star" that Dr. Evil built on the moon in 1969.

 

[loveableteddybear]

NASA is legit for national defense, as any future war with China will involve destroying satellites. I think that we are relying on RUSSIAN Soyuz rockets to do anything in space now makes America much weaker. Money would be better spent on militarizing space than putting bases in Germany and South Korea.

 

[EBounding]

The Moon Belongs to America

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/41983/detail/

 

[kcchiefs6465]

The Moon Belongs to America

People have been selling moon parcels for a while now. Hell one guy even 'owns' and sells the sun.

hxxp://lunarregistry.com/

As to the OP, no, Rand Paul shouldn't. There comes a point and time when you are expected to uphold your promises. I'm sure Rand Paul could pander to everyone but then he'd essentially be misleading a group or groups of people. Especially me, when should he start pandering to Florida folk and then actually uphold his promise and work to get them more money. We are broke. Billions of dollars promised to NASA doesn't help our situation. Suggesting that is essentially on par with Obama getting SNAP recipient votes. I'd rather he 'buys' votes with a message rather than promises for money. And as to NASA being chalked up to personal defense, eh, maybe. Most of what we do is not in any way related to defense. The day/s we go to war with China will be the day/s we'd want to have a colony elsewhere in the universe.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."- Albert Einstein

 

[RandRevolution]

I agree but I'd like to see him do it without the govt spending a cent on it. One way he can do this is by proposing a law that promotes business interest in space by saying any activity (such as launches into space, suborbital space flight, mining asteroids, manufacturing, and any other good or service) that occurs in zero G environment is tax free. Any investment that is made to get the business going is a 100% tax credit against current income.

Why should the govt be getting any taxes off of something that doesn't even occur in its boundaries?

Exactly, he can pander to NASA without promising billions in spending. Do what you just said and install a prize based system like Newt talked about, I doubt that would cost too much. If it's going to win him votes without really compromising principle then he should go for it, fuck everything else, I'm loving Rand's strategy of playing the game.

Other win-win things he should pander to:

- School nutrition reform focused on vitamins and minerals instead of obesity, i.e replace potato in school lunches with sweet potato, he is a doctor after all, people jizzed when Clinton did things like talk about replace soda with diet soda in schools
- Speak out against private prisons
- Juvenile detention center reform, more focused on rehabilitation

 

[Natural Citizen]

Exactly, he can pander to NASA without promising billions in spending. Do what you just said and install a prize based system like Newt talked about, I doubt that would cost too much. If it's going to win him votes without really compromising principle then he should go for it, fuck everything else, I'm loving Rand's strategy of playing the game.

You don't just come along and politically pander to something whose plan is already established and well on it's way.Your vote isn't that important in the scheme of things. It's certainly not relevant to impacting what already has 100% bipartisan support in scope. Sorry. That's just busy work for the sheep, really.

There really should be a platform for this kind of discussion here though. Nobody ever discusses such things in a practical way. There is so much more to it than the usual speak we hear from those less informed in scope regarding such things.

Change across the board has and will continue to come from your space program though. Make no mistake about that.