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On the recordDecember 11, 2023
Should we be spending millions, billions of dollars to pursue R&D to subsidize private companies who are going to go then and capture those resources and use them for their own profits?
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Melanie Stansbury
Democratic · New Mexico

Editor's note · Context

Stansbury questions the ethics of using taxpayer money to support private companies.

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