Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future

Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by fzeroracer on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:16PM (#44259452)

Weird how all of these budget cuts never actually have any real effect on the national debt. Almost like every time we cut something we end up replacing it with handouts to rich corporations and oligarchs in the form of lower taxes, tax breaks or just plain corruption.

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by alistairSH on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:32PM (#44259665)

Google up "federal budget pie chart" and look at some of the budget analysis. Most of our spending is mandatory spending. We could cut ALL discretionary spending and that might just barely balance the budget.

We have two options (if you take a balanced budget as a worthy goal, which is debatable)... 1 - rebuild the social contract from the ground up, with massively reduced mandatory spending

2 - increase revenue

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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by lesuorac on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:32PM (#44259666)

Weird how a few presidents get balanced budgets and the next ones all cut taxes and somehow we wonder what we need to do to get a balanced budget.

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