Depressing State of US Space

[Dill]

(07-29-2017, 05:09 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Except GMD just showed a graph using % of the budget.

So easing tax burdens has absolutely nothing to do with it. If it did, then NASA's % would stay the same and they might get less money because the overall $ is shrinking.

But no, this is just NASA getting a continually shrinking % since '90 or so, meaning that money is just being spent on other things.

I am not an economist. Just looking for information to help me interpret your OP.

Would you maintain that 1) the effective tax rate for the top quartile has not gone down since the early 60s, and 2) that spending on NASA over the last three decades has not been reduced as part of an overall effort to reduce government spending?