$250,000 for one ticket to a space ride. While this expands tourism and technology, this is strictly for the privileged class. Eating healthy is also a luxury, but it shouldn't be.
$250,000 is around $20k (and change) per month and several families don't even see such an income in a year.
SNAP provides some children a meager $1 and change per meal and that isn't even close to sufficient.
How about a more generous figure? Say it costs, on average, $4/meal to provide reasonably healthy meals to a child. That is $12 per day. Multiply that by an approximate year, 365, and that totals $4,380.
Divide $250,000 by $4,380 and round it to the nearest whole number. The total should be 52. This is how many impoverished children a space ticket for one would feed in a year. It could feed a family of 4 for 13 years, not taking inflation into account.
I don't think we should be giving breaks to the super wealthy and cutting SNAP benefits when they can afford the equivalent of what could semi-reasonably feed 52 impoverished children for a year for less than a full day's worth of entertainment. If they paid their fare share in taxes, they would still be able to take the space ride, keep their lavish homes, maintain their extreme wealth and give as much as the rest of us do in paying that fair share.
Multiply the amount of reservations by the number of impoverished children that could be fed for the space ticket price.
52X.
How many children could not only not be starving, but possibly reasonably nourished?
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