Then consider that the Department of Energy has in recent years built up an insanely terrible record ofwasting taxpayer money by directing funds to private companies, many of which have simply gone belly up (but not before paying lavish bonuses to executives).
Worse yet, we are allowing the functional equivalent ofwasting taxpayer dollars since taxpayers funds are allocated to the state universities and most of the NCAA D-1 schools are state supported.
Wasting taxpayer funds on studying an unnecessary restriction on innovation is the kind of special interest expenditure that frustrates average Americans.