> Oh and lest we forget, it is in the main scientific advances that have bought us the last 200 years, not founders or entrepreneurs, and those advances were fu

> Oh and lest we forget, it is in the main scientific advances that have bought us the last 200 years, not founders or entrepreneurs, and those advances were funded almost fully by government out of ... tax revenue. This doesn't ring true to me... the industrial revolution came from the steam engine. And so many later advancements like the light bulb, generators, cars, planes, mass manufacture of fertilizer didn't have much governmemt involvement.