I think your undertanding of the engineering challenges and demands presented by the launch market is deficient, and thus your undertanding of the proper role of government in it is way off.
Mars' core has pretty much cooled down, and thus it lacks a magnetic field to shield it from the Sun's deadly radiation. It will never be terra-formed, and thus Mars, while interesting, is of limited use, and always will be. Always.
That said, if anyone wanted to go to Mars, the cheap way to do it would not be Zubrin's Mars Direct, but rather to use solar dynamic propulsion to propel an Aldrin Cycler variant equiped with closed loop life support.
In any case, it is simply irresponsible in the extreme to spend any money on manned Mars flight before an adequate defense against comet and asteroid impact is put in place.
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