Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
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Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
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Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
#2What do you guys think? My initial thought is that it sounds like a moronic idea. A lot of countries near the equator could offer better prices - French Guiana or rest of South America.
Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
#3What do you guys think? My initial thought is that it sounds like a moronic idea. A lot of countries near the equator could offer better prices - French Guiana or rest of South America.
After reading the article and reasons for the tax, I think it's a good idea.
What do you think about the reasoning behind the tax?
Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
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Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
#5I wish they applied the same effort they have on creating new taxes on improving accountability and transparency of how those taxes are spent.
Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
#6Article looses a lot of credibility when it claims that space launches make up 10% of commercial aviation.
"Space launches still represent a small proportion of the commercial airspace — about 10% in 2023"
the stat referenced is actually that human crewed spaceflights are 10% of spaceflights...
Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
#7What do you guys think? My initial thought is that it sounds like a moronic idea. A lot of countries near the equator could offer better prices - French Guiana or rest of South America.
After reading the article and reasons for the tax, I think it's a good idea. What do you think about the reasoning behind the tax?
Depends on FAA involvement in each launch. In case of an airline FAA controls each flight for hours. In case of a rocket launch, most trouble comes from "don't go in that area" type of commitment, plus investigations of something went wrong.
Given that each airline can keep hundreds of machines in the air at any one time, and rocket launches happen weekly at best, paying 10% of the overall fee does not look fair.
Would be happy to know what aviation specialists think.
Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
#8What do you guys think? My initial thought is that it sounds like a moronic idea. A lot of countries near the equator could offer better prices - French Guiana or rest of South America.
After reading the article and reasons for the tax, I think it's a good idea. What do you think about the reasoning behind the tax?
Sounds like telling the goose laying golden eggs to start paying for the water it's swimming in or move to another pond pronto.
Re: Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
#9What do you guys think? My initial thought is that it sounds like a moronic idea. A lot of countries near the equator could offer better prices - French Guiana or rest of South America.
After reading the article and reasons for the tax, I think it's a good idea. What do you think about the reasoning behind the tax?
From a legalistic standpoint it makes sense: the FAA spends a lot of resources regulating SpaceX's activity, therefor tax SpaceX to pay for it.
From an economic and geopolitical standpoint it's clearly a poor choice to introduce an extra tax on something which drives a large amount of economic activity and is an important strategic asset.
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