{"id":597817,"date":"2021-07-20T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597817"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:20:34","slug":"democratic-lawmaker-proposes-tax-on-space-tourism-exploration-moments-after-bezos-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-lawmaker-proposes-tax-on-space-tourism-exploration-moments-after-bezos-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Lawmaker Proposes Tax On Space Tourism, Exploration Moments After Bezos Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-lawmaker-proposes-tax-on-space-tourism-exploration-moments-after-bezos-lands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597817&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"45.823802163833\">\n<p>Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer introduced legislation that would tax commercial space travel Tuesday, unveiling the bill minutes after Jeff Bezos, the world\u2019s richest man, flew to the edge of space on a self-funded rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenauer, a top Democrat on the influential House Ways and Means Committee, said his bill would tax all commercial space flights that did not directly contribute to scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace exploration isn\u2019t a tax-free holiday for the wealthy,\u201d he said in an emailed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aidachavez\/status\/1417494445776416768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>. \u201cJust as normal Americans pay taxes when they buy airline tickets, billionaires who fly into space to produce nothing of scientific value should do the same, and then some.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos and three passengers <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/20\/jeff-bezos-space-blue-origin-new-shepard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">successfully launched into space<\/a> and touched down minutes later on a Blue Origin rocket, a company that the Amazon founder launched twenty years ago. Virgin founder and fellow billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-space-earth\/\">Richard Branson<\/a> traveled to the edge of space in his own self-funded rocket last Monday, with him and his fellow passengers becoming the first to commercial travel beyond earth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7240710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7240710\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7240710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329690430-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329690430-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329690430-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329690430-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329690430-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329690430-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329690430-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7240710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Shepard Blue Origin rocket lifts-off Tuesday morning from Van Horn, Texas. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tickets on Bezos\u2019 spacecraft sold for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/14\/jeff-bezos-space-blue-origin-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$28 million each<\/a>, and a teenager was selected to go at the last minute after somebody canceled due to a scheduling conflict.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/jeff-bezos-youngest-person-ever-oliver-daemen-18-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Bezos Taking Youngest Person Ever To Space After Original Passenger Cancels)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not opposed to this type of space innovation,\u201d Blumenauer said. \u201cHowever, things that are done purely for tourism or entertainment, and that don\u2019t have a scientific purpose, should in turn support the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer introduced legislation that would tax commercial space travel Tuesday, unveiling the bill minutes after Jeff Bezos, the world\u2019s richest man, flew to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}