NASA is allowed to take donations by congress but they have to be unsolicited and unconditional. Gofundme is soliciting. If you want to donate you have to mail a NASA office a check with a note saying it’s an unconditional gift and they put it in a gifts trust fund.
Well to quote Total Recall would just like our ass to get to mars or build a bigger ISS
This is why we have taxes. Goddamnit I hate everything
Oops, we gave all the tax revenue to SpaceX, which merged its finances with Tesla, and are now giving $1 trillion of it to Elon Musk
NASA is just a brand now. Elon is the only game in town w.r.t. the usa.
$380 mil for an agency as large as NASA is laughable
For reference, the SLS reportedly costs $2 billion per launch.
That’s just taxation with extra steps (and so much money in fees to the GoFundMe platform)
Uh, its called taxation.
Nope, its worse. 1$ is worth far more in a poor person’s pocket than a rich one. Taxation atleast tries to be more fair by taxing based on income.
Yeah but the idiots in charge right now are literally keeping the money. They’re legitimately stealing funds.
Tell that to the public school teachers holding fundraisers for school supplies. Even police departments hold staggering amounts of fundraisers for police equipment lol.
I maybe wouldn’t donate to NASA generally, but a fundraiser for a specific mission? Hell yes take my money. We would have Gundams by next year
You are correct, NASA is a government institution foremost. What OP suggests is akin to healthcare gofundme’s or that boy selling cookies so his mom doesn’t die of cancer.
That said they do have a point, though I’m sure NASA has other ways of receiving donations.
More like voting for candidates that aren’t anti science.
My understanding is that there is a law on the books that prevents government agencies from accepting donations.
Just call it lobbying and it’s perfectly legal, even encouraged, these days.
Federal entities begging for donations sounds like a poor decision to me at first glance, but then I remembered that federal parks seem to do it all the time with no judgement. So maybe it’s actually a really good idea?
It has some advantages but I think it will make public services even more subordinated to the interests of the wealthy. Since they would have almost sole discretion on where that money goes.
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