{"id":455,"date":"2004-01-29T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-29T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T03:16:49","slug":"mars-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/29\/mars-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375421505\/antiwarbookstore\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0375421505.01._PE30_PI_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\" border=\"0\"><\/a> The &#8220;Defense&#8221; Dept. actually endangers the United States &#8212; for example, its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationinstitute.org\/tomdispatch\/index.mhtml?emx=x&#038;pid=1181\">empire of bases<\/a> brought <a href=\"http:\/\/216.239.53.104\/search?q=cache:K8H--eTI_SsJ:edition.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/2001\/gulf.war\/legacy\/bin.laden\/+%22occupation+of+the+land+of+the+holy+places%22&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8\">a foreign power struggle<\/a> to New York and DC a couple of years ago. (So now we have a Homeland Defense department. What were the other guys supposed to be defending?)<\/p>\n<p>NASA, of course, is part of the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/119764_nasa30.html\">dangerous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.army.mil\/ocpa\/read.php?&#038;story_id_key=5598\">military<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TECH\/space\/9909\/30\/mars.metric.02\/\">industrial<\/a> welfare program. Predictably, NASA is actually inhibiting the development of space travel by strangling competition &#8212; as a new book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/01\/18\/RVGH546K931.DTL\">Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age<\/a><\/i>, argues. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375421505\/antiwarbookstore\">Buy the book!<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Forget about Bush&#8217;s martial Martian boondoggle; what the off-world needs now is legal lunar homesteading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Defense&#8221; Dept. actually endangers the United States &#8212; for example, its empire of bases brought a foreign power struggle to New York and DC a couple of years ago. (So now we have a Homeland Defense department. What were the other guys supposed to be defending?) NASA, of course, is part of the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}