Reagan got $5 Billion for his efforts from taxpayers?
Citing Reagan to justify crony capitalism is a non-starter.
Musk’s Spacex blew up 2 minutes into its trajectory.
How does that save money — in the short or long run.
And if you are smart enough to pick winners and losers — let’s see your stock picks. Otherwise, let the market (free choice of individual consumers) pick the winners.
Where does the $5 billion figure come from?
And it’s not even clever to pick the one failure to judge the entire program. Has there ever been a rocket launcher that didn’t have a failure? Is there anyone that can put a pound of cargo into orbit any cheaper than SpaceX?