FDXLAG

Corporations dont pay taxes they simply collect them from their customers and pass them on to the government who funds their competitors (who if they contribute to the right politico do not pay taxes). See GE and "Big Oil".

jungle

N2264J, I invite you to look around your home or place of work and find a single thing inscribed "made by the government of the USA", if you can find such a thing please share it with us, we would all love to see it.

N2264J

Are you being cryptic and obtuse because you can't answer the question:
Which private industry is helping to fund Mars exploration?

My understanding it that the companies building the equipment are being
contracted by the government. They aren't using their own money. NASA
is government jobs program.

jungle

I'll make it easy for you: Where does government funding come from, who actually pays for it?

I am sure a sharp guy like you knows the answer to this very simple question.

N2264J

The internet.

jungle

That is it? A common myth, unfortunately history does not support it, and I have never seen any gov produced hardware or software outside NSA or other special applications.

The internet had many fathers: History of the Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Would you have us believe they also produced the telegraph, telephone and teletype?

N2264J

You asked for a single example.

The Federal Funding of R&D: Who Gets the Patent Rights?

Whenever your article refers to ARPANET or DARPA, it's talking about the government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

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jungle

It is a shame they can't generate any income on their own and it is telling that your single example is a fiction.

Does anyone subscribe to the fictional government internet service-anyone own a government server, router, modem or computer? Did they actually build a cable system? Inquiring minds want to know.

They do however continue to dump billions every year into snailmail, even with private sector help they can't make that work.
Think about that for a minute- a monopoly that can't even support itself but instead runs billions in the red every year.

N2264J

Calling in backup? Shouting me down isn't going to change reality and misstating what
I've said is indicative of losing the argument.

This is from the Wikipedia entry you linked:

As a young congressman from Tennessee, Al Gore was responsible for legislation that facilitated the development of the internet in addition to funneling tax payer dollars to the new enterprise. By the way, contrary to popular belief, Gore never claimed to "invent" the internet but he was instrumental in its creation.

No taxpayer money goes to fund the Post Office. None. The fiscal problem with the postal service started in 2006 when corporatists in congress mandated that the Post Office fund retirement benefits for postal workers for 75 years within the next 10 years. In other words, put benefits away for employees who aren't even born yet. As a result, the Post Office starts out $5 billion in the hole every year.

Of course, their agenda is to kill the Post Office so they can throw some more business to their Wall Street sugar daddies. It's ironic behavior from congressmen who claim the Constitution is tantamount to the word of God because every little backwater Post Office and the road to get there have a constitutional mandate.

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jungle

I love it when you lie:

Postal Service Registers $5.2 Billion Loss - WSJ.com