Bezos, Branson, and the Billionaire-Funded Race To Make Space a Bargain

Last week, the billionaire businessman Richard Branson hurled himself to the edge of space on a ship he helped privately fund and develop and came back smiling. Now Jeff Bezos is doing the same. Billionaires launching themselves skyward on their own dime has occasioned a bitter debate about income inequality—whether the government should be taking more of their wealth through taxation.