> I don’t know much about this stuff, so probably a silly question. Why the heck would Yale or Harvard need so much federal funding? All universities are resea

> I don’t know much about this stuff, so probably a silly question. Why the heck would Yale or Harvard need so much federal funding? All universities are research institutions and the funding at issue are research grants. > For how much students pay and how many wealthy donors they have, why are tax payers funding Yale? Students pay basically for the costs associated with having students at the university, but that's not the primary function of the university. > This is probably one of the rare times I support a funding cut. Yeah, I mean, if you qant to slit the throat of progress in all fields of science, that makes a lot of sense.