I can't stay away from politics any more than I can quit smoking. Don't let the bastards get you down. Confidence in humanity is the key to sanity . Having said that, it appears that today's entry is mostly about computers anyway. Oh well, I suppose there's a government doing something dumb somewhere in the world.
Taxes are for defence of liberty from external aggression only.
Government-funded space programs are a failure. The US spends more, in real terms, on the space program than ever before and is achieving less and less. Socialism killed manned space exploration. Property rights are the only rights that matter in the real world. If your government decides what you can and can't own, then they control you.