Shouldn't the taxpayer stop funding scientific government research?

Government funded scientific research gave us the atomic bomb. Privately funded research gave us things like the Transistor, from Bell Labs, the integrated circuit, Fairchild Semiconductors, and Texas Instruments, the logarithmic shift register, Wang Laboratories, all things essential to the computer you're now using.

Of the 93 papers selected for Nobel Prizes between 2000 and 2008, 53 reported US government funding.

http://www.fasebj.org/content/24/5/1335.full

Gravity is an interesting example you give. Sir Isaac Newton was a member of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. This society was given its charter by King Charles II and is funded by the British Parliament

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society

Special Relativity is another interesting suggestion since Einstein proposed this in his PhD thesis while studying at the publicly funded University of Zurich.

Einstein worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which received federal funding. The Princeton Plasma Physics Lab also receives funding and works on Fusion and built the tocomac machine. There are many more I am sure but that's just the first thing that came to mind. The Internet your on and the machine, we call them computers, that let's you do it is another.

"Why can't you accept that the most prominent scientific laws (gravity, electromagnetism, theory of special relativity, quantum mechanics, etc.) all came from the private sector?"

Don't ever assume that your audience disagrees with a question that you ask.

Einstein was a public servant when he formulated the Theory of Relativity. He was working in the Swiss Patent Office. He wasn't being paid to research physics however. The truth is that private enterprise does not invest too much in research in most countries either.

Yea, the internet was an over rated investment anyway.

What about nuclear power? What about the piston engine? All of that came from government funded research. No, one goes into government to try and waste money. There really isn't that much waste in government spending, most waste is in our tax code.

Yes.

Dump NASA and the US richclass engineer's club toasting working-class-paid champagne for each test rocket launch.

Yep total waste of money.Scientists should have to pay a 99% tax

Yes.

I would till out debt is retired.