Should scienific research get more governmental funding?

This position holds that governments should spend more on scientific research, because the work that yields the largest long-term returns is the work no private funder will pay for, and because a state is the only body able to fund it patiently.

This position holds that governments should not spend more on scientific research, because public money is finite and has competing claims on it, and because the way research funding is allocated rewards grant-writing and caution rather than discovery.