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Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants

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280 points dargscisyhp | 1 comments | 02 Aug 25 06:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.263s | source
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m101 ◴[02 Aug 25 08:37 UTC] No.44765789[source]▶
UCLA has an endowment of 3.8bn$. Whilst I'm sympathetic to their desire to be further government financed for the work they do, I feel like government financing should be made available to those that actually need the money. The attitude that you have access to government funds even if you have the ability to pay yourself needs to change.
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bigDinosaur ◴[02 Aug 25 08:48 UTC] No.44765839[source]▶
Endowments are often earmarked for certain use cases. They aren't necessarily permitted to spend it as they like.
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xdennis ◴[02 Aug 25 09:34 UTC] No.44766052[source]▶
Maybe taxes should be the same. I don't mind being taxed as much as I hate my taxes going to the wrong thing.
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1. kergonath ◴[02 Aug 25 10:09 UTC] No.44766268[source]▶
Now, find out if you agree with 10 random people about what is the right or the wrong thing.