It's not his employer that has the rights-- it's the publisher which at no point paid for the research. As an American tax payer I funded the poster's research

It's not his employer that has the rights-- it's the publisher which at no point paid for the research. As an American tax payer I funded the poster's research. And yet if I want to read about it I have to pay a foreign private company that played no role in orchestrating or funding the research itself.