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by ameister14 4238 days ago
We live in a Republic, in the United States at least. As a result, you have elected certain people to represent you. Basically, you have given your proxy to someone. NASA, or any other organization, then goes to the person you've given your proxy vote to, and convinces them and leads by example, asking for money peacefully.

The person votes for it, and by extension YOU vote for it. Nobody's stealing anything; you voted to give it to them.

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Unless you abstained from voting, in which case you don't get to complain either.