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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: How to Solve NASA's budget problems
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 10:47:35 EST
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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