From the sounds of it, you would shut down the Very Large Array (VLA), Kitt Peak, the entire National Science Foundation, Keck, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Stanford/NASA Biocomputational Center, All of JPL and any deep space exploration, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (and others like it), the National Science Digital Library, the National Academy of Sciences, just to name a few.
Note, just in case anyone may have been wondering, I do have a dog in this hunt since my personal income comes from a government project. (albeit an important one IMHO)
well, I'm not sure what all those research centers do, how they are funded, or what purpose they serve, but I do know that it makes no sense to take money from companies doing research and give it to government doing research, which is what is currently occuring.
By definition, private companies will advance technology and living standards exponentially faster than if you steal their money to splurge on who knows what archiac government research program.
We spend billions and billions and billions on University grants which then raise the pay of their research professors who then donate to the democratic party, who then raise the research spending. It is pure theft.
And? What's your point?
Americans freely choose to spend over $30 billion per year on consumer and business magazine subscriptions.
If they want funds for these projects, why don't they just sell subscriptions instead of confiscating money from every American citizen at gunpoint? Surely if these projects are worthwhile there's no need to force people to pay for them whether they want to or not, right?