Which in no way implies a "right" to force unwilling parties to pay for space activities.
Other than that, you are thinking penny-wise and pound foolish quibbling about a few billion in a multi-trillion dollar economy.
If it's such a puny amount, all the more reason to look to that multi-trillion dollar private sector to come up with it.
Corporations in space need to raise their own defenses against Russian and Chinese military space forces according to your idea. Corporations need to defend the US communications and GPS grid against all comers.
No, that's your straw man - I support defense spending wherever defense is needed.
You are neglecting to take into consideration the huge and rapid advances in all realms of technology which came directly out of the US manned space program. While some will argue that those things would have happened anyway - which in my opinion is fanciful thinking and a weak argument.
They don't have to prove it's true - if you want to pick their pockets for your pet program, you have to prove it's false, just as a first step.
Right! its time to feed the homeless and shelter the poor; snowflakes need more safe spaces.
The heck with Hope, Exploration that this country was founded on. It costs too much.
Let China, Russia, Europe, Japan, and India take the lead. We need to become Obama’s image of a third world country. Let’s go for it!