There's a false dichotomy, because everyone in the US is subsidising a super-caste of 0.1%ers. They're the ones who pay PR companies, think tanks, and other in

There's a false dichotomy, because everyone in the US is subsidising a super-caste of 0.1%ers. They're the ones who pay PR companies, think tanks, and other influencers to create the illusion of consensus narratives by generating these talking points and making sure they're repeated by various apparently independent sources. It makes it almost impossible to argue the merits of public subsidy funding on its own terms because the truth about costs and benefits is aggressively obscured.