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Tax payers are not going to be helped by cutting a mere 1B in science funding.
by noobermin 1y ago
Tax payers are not going to be helped by cutting a mere 1B in science funding.
- vkou 1y agoEspecially when ICE receives a $75B budget increase to do things that are blatantly unamerican and often illegal. The annual deficit has massively increased this year, perhaps parent poster should be trying to apply the same rubric to the rest of the budget. Surely the ROI of spending money to commit crimes can't be good.
- pstuart 1y agoThese cuts are ideologically driven and use the "saving taxpayers money" line as coverage. As you noted, ICE just got billions more, as well as the military. Not a single cost cutting measure has been announced in those areas. Being mindful of taxpayer dollars is not a bad thing, but it has to be across the board. And more so, some of those dollars spent are an investment that pays off (like scientific research) vs those that don't (like a lot of military spending).
- bArray 1y agoYou're right, but making savings is a process of a thousand cuts.