So that taxpayers can spend ten times as much and still not be able to launch, much less launch anything reusable? SLS has been in the works for well over a decade.
But that's a private company too. It's almost like NASA has never built rockets as part of its mission and they have always been built by private contractors.

That argument just makes no sense at all.

Public sector spaceflight have historically been far more inefficient and costly than modern commercial space flight, and public sector spaceflight also didn't have any plans to provide innovative new alternatives to the ground based monopolistic ISP's