"destroys capacity which will have to be rebuilt" Maybe that's a good thing to break up some of the corruption and waste in the system. Or maybe it doesn't ha

"destroys capacity which will have to be rebuilt" Maybe that's a good thing to break up some of the corruption and waste in the system. Or maybe it doesn't have to be rebuilt because there's already too much publicly funded science? There has to be an optimum amount and who's to say we're not already above that? Of course if money was free, then the more the merrier. But remember everything the government spends comes at the expense of opportunity cost, either to the government or the people paying for it in tax and inflation.