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Ron Paul Would Erase Billions in Research Spending →

Presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s new proposal to slash federal spending would wipe out large chunks of the government’s research portfolio. …

I would certainly hope so.

Personally, I don’t find it appropriate to put a gun to my neighbor’s head and rob him in the name of “science research” (even assuming it was properly spent, which would be tremendously generous to the lumbering and corrupt bureaucratic apparatus that is government). And I further don’t find it any more appropriate to employ others, namely agents of the state, to rob him on my behalf.

But Ron Paul wouldn’t stop free people from funding research themselves - and that tends to be more efficient and successful, and thus less funding would be required. 

He’d cut a lot more spending in many other areas if he had his way, too. But that funding will instead remain in the economy and circulate (through spending, investments, or savings) in a manner more representative of individual preferences, as opposed to being engineered by a cadre of plutocrats, politicians, bureaucrats, and their corporate cronies. Personally, I find it foolish to trust the distribution of research funds to some politician whose only expertise comes from the lobbyists padding his wallet and whichever corporate “researchers” within his district may employ his constituency.

(Source: anticapitalist)

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