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Leave all Science to the private sector.
Are you prepared to enjoy life without computers, nuclear power or dozens of other important inventions?
Government supported R&D is key towards advancing technology. Companies only care about how to make a widget faster and cheaper, and don't give one fig for figuring out far more important discoveries than making widgets.
But those things could have been done without government funding and most likely cheaper to us. Plus, the private sector has created way more inventions that the government has or could. Funding science is not the governments job.
You're missing the Point. Private Industry may Cure Cancer, reanimate Roadkill, Colonize Mars, yadda yadda ya, but Reality shows that they often don't do these types of things. No one should prevent Private Enterprise from working on various things, but Government Funded research has been extremely important in bringing us to where we are today. Much of our Electronics, Plastics, the Internet, and many more Techs are direct results of Government and not Private Enterprise.
Reality doesn't care for Ideological positions.