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Science is a pitifully small portion of our budget. We spend more on potato chips as a nation than we spend on NASA for instance.

• baggy_trough 5y ago
  There's a very important difference between those things. Potato chips are purchased voluntarily, while NASA takes money from taxpayers who will be put into cages if they don't comply.
  • _aavaa_ 5y ago
    I’m down for the alternative. We can allow people to opt out of funding basic science programs, but they must the pay a extra tax when they use a product that’s the result of that basic science. The tax would be fair since you’d figure out the rate of return of that basic science and add up all that compounding return.
  • antifa 5y ago
    That seems like a pretty fair contract to accept to live in one of the the greatest free and fair societies that exists in the world.