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John Campbell: “The point is do we want to spend taxpayer funds on this? The United States taxpayer cannot fund every bit of academic…”

On the recordMay 2, 2007
The point is do we want to spend taxpayer funds on this? The United States taxpayer cannot fund every bit of academic research for every university, for everything that every professor wants to do across this country. We can't do that. The question before us is, are these the sorts of things we do want to spend taxpayer money on? I would suggest that they are not, and that is why I would suggest that to vote against this amendment is to say that you believe that taxpayer money should be spent on these specific items. That is the question before us. Not whether it is interesting. I am a Civil War buff. I love all kinds of interesting stuff about that, but I don't think the taxpayer ought to pay for research into it.
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John Campbell
California
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Debating the allocation of taxpayer funds for academic research.

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