> "Research should never be funded by tuition anyway." Almost all research is funded through grants. > "It's a shame that one political party in this country

> "Research should never be funded by tuition anyway." Almost all research is funded through grants. > "It's a shame that one political party in this country has taken to believing that all of the world's problems can be solved with lower taxes (not low taxes, lowER taxes)" We have a budget problem, most of which is due to entitlements and it cannot be resolved through increased income through taxes. maybe it can be solved through higher taxes due to people doing more things, but not higher overall taxes. my numbers are old, but they should be in ball park. if you took all the money off the rich (1 million$+ nw) in the entire world (not just US), its somewhere around 7 trillion $. - Lets ignore the fact that they do pay the lions share of tax revenue, and that revenue would now be gone an the 99% would have to take on that burden - Lets further ignore their wealth is shared, as in if zuckerberg sold all of facebooks stock, Billy G would lose net worth because he owns facebook stock and the laws of suply and demand would dictate a lower price. that 7 trillion would pay our deficit for only 16 years, and wouldn't even bring the total debt down to when Obama was elected president. I dont agree that research spending should be cut, but I sort of get why its facing the axe. Universities (on the administrative level) aren't apolitical anymore, and increasingly neither is their research. One example was that I noticed how well diabetes overlapped with obesity rates on the map. The areas that did not overlap did overlap with another thing: excessive alcohol consumption. When I brought it up in the lab, it was immediately dismissed - I dont disagree with the hyps, but science means looking into things not going by personal opinion. As an experiment, I showed the same trend to another group, but I told them the non-overlapping region was increased diabetes rates, and that the other factor was soda consumption. This drew immediate attention, they were ready to write grant proposals to NSF and NIH in hopes that this can be used to broaden soda taxes across the country. I do think its a shame that the current president is focusing on so many things other than getting tech companies to bring their revenues 'home' to be taxed. I think that would benefit everyone. But when I look at whats going on, I dont agree with it, but I do get it.