There's a lot to say in favor of this and I generally agree. It's frustrating to see taxpayer money used in this way. If the government were to say, "taypayer m

There's a lot to say in favor of this and I generally agree. It's frustrating to see taxpayer money used in this way. If the government were to say, "taypayer money = open access," it would need to factor in the many situations where taxpayer funding is combined with private investment. This includes the time and professional reputation of the project owners, who may be risking a decade or more of their career on an innovative idea that might not pan out. This is just my perspective from researching SBIR grants, which are generally $100,000 - $250,000. This is enough to fund a component of a project or get started, but this deceiving large amount really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things. It would be interesting to isolate projects where taxpayer dollars constitute a majority of the funding and go from there.