The Crisis of Big Science by Steven Weinberg | The New York Review of Books.
“Without adequate funding, in the next decade we may see the search for the laws of nature slow to a halt, not to be resumed again in our lifetimes.”
And from the concluding paragraph:
“It seems to me that what is really needed is not more special pleading for one or another particular public good, but for all the people who care about these things to unite in restoring higher and more progressive tax rates, especially on investment income. I am not an economist, but I talk to economists, and I gather that dollar for dollar, government spending stimulates the economy more than tax cuts. It is simply a fallacy to say that we cannot afford increased government spending. But given the anti-tax mania that seems to be gripping the public, views like these are political poison. This is the real crisis, and not just for science.”