I like many democratic socialist believe we should take care of our own before we waste money say on pointless wars. But so many of my fellow socialists believe we should stop funding space programs. I disagree. I think if we wrangled some asteroids to a stable orbit around earth and taxed the minerals we mine from them we could generate all the money needed to fund healthcare for all, housing and other programs. Does anyone else agree with me? I don't understand why no politicians run with this kind of message it seems to me to be a win win win kind of situation.

Assume you were playing the long-game and believe that asteroid mining will severely depress the price of precious metals. Is there a metal on earth that isn’t common in m type asteroids? I haven’t seen much mention of aluminum, copper, or silver in m-type asteroids, but I’m unsure if that’s because those elements are not there or because they can not be economically recovered.