Gaetano P. Cipriano ’78

3 Months Ago

No Taxes for University Research

I’m delighted that the federal government is cutting the funding.

It was never intended or anticipated in the Constitution that research conducted in universities would be funded by tax dollars. The taxes paid by a plumber in Davenport, Iowa, shouldn’t be paying for Princeton professors making a fortune and barely teaching. Or to build the latest Taj Mahal building using the most expensive design team ever assembled. Get back to basics. The most grotesque waste of money in history is the Plasma Physics Lab at Forrestal at which billions of dollars were flushed down a rat hole trying to commercialize fusion to generate electricity. Failure after failure after failure funded by my tax dollars.

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