Do you remember those Stanford and U.C. Berkeley professors who announced that their "study" shows that Bush and Reagan were akin to Hitler and Mossolini, and that all right wing political conservatives are basically crazy?

Well, guess who paid $1.2 million for it? If you said American taxpayers, give yourself a gold star.

They used the police power of the government to seize money from taxpayers like you and me, so that they could research the readings of Paul Krugman, and "conclude" that we're crazy. And the short of it is that if we let them get away with it, we are crazy.