Electronic widgets and their tariffs are not the problem with global trade. Severely protectionist tariffs and policies on agricultural commodities and large manufactured goods are the problem.

I wonder why the lander's antenna is directional when it only communicates with the orbiter. That doesn't seem like enough distance to warrant directional.

Why near a pole? On the equator. A Lunar space elevator could be made with existing materials technology.

Medicare fraud alone makes $10 billion look like chump change. Complaining about waste of taxpayer money in the context of a lunar base for only $10B is the wrong argument against.

Other comments have already taken you to task for your somewhat pedantic objection to keyboards as output. If the motherboard is functioning but merely locked up by software, sending input by pressing caps lock provides output from the computer in the form of the little light going on and off. Yes, that qualifies as output. Especially in the context of what an A+ hardware tech certification ought to be testing. Furthermore, output on the monitor is the state of bits in RAM or registers. Output on the keyboard is the state of bits in the register in the keyboard controller. By any reasonable definition, these are both data and both output.

You are quite correct. Many years ago I saw a practice "A+" test this as the very first question:
Which one or more of the following are both input and output devices:
A: Floppy drive
B: Keyboard
C: Mouse
D: Monitor
It told me I was wrong for picking A and B because keyboards are input only. It seems they didn't think someone doing helpdesk should know the three little lights on the keyboard are important diagnostic output.

Airports pay for themselves after a while with fees from the airlines, etc. Passenger train service (in the US) is a never ending taxpayer subsidy.

Texas? Georgia? Not exactly ideal for cooling costs. What happened to the green data center movement; put it in North Dakota and all the server cooling can be handled by a vent coming in from the outside.

There's a company in china selling supposedly low power tablets and phones for pregnant women so their developing babies won't have any defects from the radiation.

Well, yes, that is the definition of illegal; because a law says so. Perhaps you are confusing morality/immorality with legality/illegality?

Where have you been since the 1890's? Millions of people in employee unions believe this quite firmly, to the point of violence and beyond.

Not the same at all. Debtor's prison threw debtors in jail where they couldn't work off their debts. Greece is not being thrown in jail. If they have the political will to radically overhaul their pension system and general government debt spending then they could pay it off. The only restructing needed is drastically renegotiated interest rates because compounding interest makes paying the principle amount nearly impossible. To insist the principle be repaid is not "punishment" by itself. Compounding interest at these levels can be "punishing" so the lesson needs to be learned in a way that is doable.

I think the source of confusion is that you should realize you have two distinct roles in the economy: 1. You are a seller of labor who effectively charges your employer for your expenses including tax and 2. you are an end consumer who buys things that have corporate tax built into the prices which you cannot pass on.
 
Consider extreme hypethetical case: Joe has inherited a huge pile of cash, literally, and is otherwise unemployed. He has no income, not even interest because it's cash, and just spends as needed. Joe pays corporate income tax as built into prices. He cannot pass it on to anyone.
 
The opposite extreme example is Mary, who has a job and calculated what take home she needed after taxes and demands salary accordingly. She is such an amazing mooch that she never buys anything. Mary effectively pays no taxes because she's baked that cost into her salary demand (although of course she fills out irs paperwork and whatnot) .
 
The point is that only the end consumer (when acting in an end consumer role) really pays all the accumulated income taxes.
 
Some people fool themselves as if there was no such thing as income tax they've ever heard about and think that a salary of X means X is what is "theirs" and then they act surprised that the irs is "taking my money". This was true the first year the first income tax law was passed. To any modern person, you should know tax is an expense that is coming, like it or not, and treat it accordingly by baking it into your salary expectation.

This is exactly what happens. Unless you mean when you negotiated your salary it didn't occur to you that income tax would need to be paid on it. You didn't realise that "we pay X for this job" was going to translate to X-n (n=deductions including income tax) take-home pay? And then you think, hmm, will that take-home amount be enough to pay my bills or did you think will X be enough to pay my bills and got a huge shock when you saw the deductions?

Yes, you are paying a far larger portion than ANY company. But do you know why? Because no company has ever paid a penny of "their own" income in taxes. Their taxes are baked into their prices. You pay their taxes for them. Estimated taxes are part of the structure determining price: 1: Cost of materials 2: Cost of labor 3: Cost of capital 4: Cost of taxes 5: Cost of profit (the company's own income) 6: Cost of selling 7 - N: etc.
Saying companies ought to pay more in income tax is the same as saying you wished they charged more for their products and services. Income taxes at all levels are really just paid by the last level that can't pass it on to a customer downstream.

Yep, I've had a car dealership call me repeatedly about someone else's unpaid car. Not someone I know at all; I think they either made up a number (mine) or it was a data entry error. The people calling from the dealership always took the line of "yeah sure it's not you, you're just saying that to avoid us". I had to call their legal department to get it to stop.