08-09-2017, 03:03 PM
Operations, wages, research, and public outreach are all intertwined. Without operations and wages, you don't get research and outreach, and without research and outreach, you don't have a need for operations and wages. Taxing just part of those things is taxing them all, and the additional cost would likely close several of the MK observatories. They already operate on very tight budgets.