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Endowments are often earmarked for certain use cases. They aren't necessarily permitted to spend it as they like.
by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Endowments are often earmarked for certain use cases. They aren't necessarily permitted to spend it as they like.
- xdennis 1y agoMaybe taxes should be the same. I don't mind being taxed as much as I hate my taxes going to the wrong thing.
- kergonath 1y agoNow, find out if you agree with 10 random people about what is the right or the wrong thing.
- m101 1y agoThis is unfairly downvoted but strikes at the core of the matter. Democracy is fundamentally oppressive of a minority (and often majority). A vote in favour of a government to fund "basic research" (as it is generously described) is fundamentally not a vote to fund basic research, but rather a vote to expropriate wealth from a group that doesn't want it to be financed in order to finance it.
- klooney 1y agoIn California, your taxes are mostly earmarked for k-14 education, and the legislature can't change that.