[Borodog]

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Well, considering I'm funded by the NIH and NSF I friggin' love taxes and bureaucracy.

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I can certainly understand this point of view.

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So there should be no basic science then? Or interstates? etc.

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Did I say that?

You are suffering from the all to common belief that if something currently done by the government were not done by the government, it would go undone. I used to suffer from the same misconception, until I actually started doing some research. Suffice it to say that I have never encountered a service provided by government that both a) could be provided for better (i.e. at higher quality and lower cost with more choice) by government than the free market and b) should be provided. The only things that I've ever found that government can provide for better than the free market are massacres, genocides, concentration camps, mass graves, and similar public goods.