Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia,net.politics Subject: Re: How to Solve NASA's budget problems Message-ID: <640@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 10:47:35 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.640 Posted: Wed Mar 21 10:47:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 08:03:04 EST References: <375@dual.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 23 }} Without getting into the moral and health questions involved in putting the government into the drug business, there are two problems. 1. If the government got into the business, making drugs legal and available would bring the street price down and, therefore, generate much less revenue to run NASA. 2. If the government kept the street price at the current levels, the crime that now takes place to pay for drugs would remain high, thus generating a need to use the revenues to deter crime. It won't work. Why don't we all, every man jack and woman jane and kid little just send $10.00 to NASA. Let's see now, there are around 210 million of us out here. Ten bucks times 210 million would get them over 2 billion to work with. Next year, we could pick another favorite agency and do the same thing. There must be a way to work this out so we don't have to pay so much in Federal taxes, Hmmm. T. C. Wheeler