There's a very important difference between those things. Potato chips are purchased voluntarily, while NASA takes money from taxpayers who will be put into cages if they don't comply.
I’m down for the alternative. We can allow people to opt out of funding basic science programs, but they must the pay a extra tax when they use a product that’s the result of that basic science.
The tax would be fair since you’d figure out the rate of return of that basic science and add up all that compounding return.
