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Mephisto,
You are incorrect in your assumptions.
There is no two-tiered system of R&D in the united states, as you seem to assume. Research by private corporations and large universities is funded by government grants, but no public institute carries out the research and owns the intellectual patents. Private interests own the intellectual patents, even when universities conduct the research.
You've totally warped what I said about taxation. You claim that it isn't my tax money, whereas I specifically said that it is "our" money, society as a collective. I know for a fact that taxpayer money was used on tax funded research, I never said anything about my own money--you shoved that into my post. That is why I state that, as a whole, taxpayers are entitled to benefit from any advances they fund.
But I'm over this discussion. You aren't making very much sense to me. Mondak and I are arguing from two opposite perspectives, and you are disagreeing with both of us. Your argument doesn't sound consistent as a result of that fact.
Maybe rereading what we've all posted after a few days or a week will illuminate something in either of our arguments.
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