Elon Musk Created a Space Program. Democrats Want to Seize It. By Daniel Greenfield at Front Page.

The record numbers for the SpaceX IPO led to a massive freakout with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and every one of their minions posting hysterical messages demanding that the government immediately confiscate all that wealth because ‘trillionaires’ shouldn’t exist. …

Proposals to tax stock value aren’t even normative taxation, they’re simply government confiscation and nationalization….

SpaceX is now a viable space program backed by trillions. It can take the next step into the new frontier that the government that Sanders, Warren, Khanna and the other socialists uphold has failed to do.

Barack Obama had dismantled what was left of our space program to feed money to his backers and assorted grifters promising electric cars and solar panels. What was left of it was turned over to the Russians and we hitched rides on their Soyuz tin cans. We haven’t had anything resembling a space program now in nearly two decades. …

But even before Obama, our space program hit a dead end when the revolutionary men of the Air Force were shoved aside for NASA which after some early successes ossified into a progressive bureaucracy with no interest beyond getting government grants to conduct pointless studies. The Carter Administration and the space Space Shuttle, despite the hype, marked the end of any kind of real space progression.

NASA with the space shuttle was little more than a placeholder. NASA without the shuttle was there to push global warming.

The US Government lost its technical and adventuring mojo decades ago, as it became taken over by progressive arts graduates.

Elon Musk’s companies now do what the US Government would once have done — electric cars, satellite communication, space travel, going to Mars, etc. Elon Musk has emerged as the alternate government in the US — all without taxation!