Spaceport America Making Progress
I’m quite delighted to have read that Sierra County, New Mexico has approved a 1/4 of 1 percent gross receipts tax increase to fund the building of Spaceport America. They’re working on getting all the other approvals they need to operate the spaceport, as well as a deal with Virgin Galactic.
There’s just something about seeing commercial space travel make progress that’s really exciting to me. I figure it comes of having a space-crazed father and reading quite a bit of science fiction.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
That is pretty cool! Seems like most people have a desire to go into space at some point in their life. It would be quite a thing to have commercial space travel.
Collin
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May 31st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
While I’m all in favor of a commercial space port, I think it should be built solely with commercial funding — you know, a business either trades you for your money or asks to you to help pay for a worthy cause. Wouldn’t it be great if taxpayer moneys were obtain through the same moral means instead of simply being taken from hard working people?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 am
Perhaps, but this is likely to be a huge tax benefit to the area once it’s built. Visitors, whatever taxes there are on the spaceport/launches, that kind of thing. I fully expect the area to get its money back and then some.