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Only the "shadow government" should fund them. And then only with Confederate money.

They might as well since they are throwing our tax money at everything else . . .=/

Just my not-so-humble opinion. B)

No.

I hope that was a deliberate joke.

If people don't get paid for their job, there is a reason for it. It's not in demand and nobody wants to pay for it. Paranormal investigators are not a necessity, therefore it should not be subsidized by the taxpayers.

I presume you have an extraordinary argument on why the government should fund hobbies.

I've heard some stupid proposals from this website, but nothing is more stupid than this one.

Who are you, Carver? Mr. Professional Debater over here. I hate people who come to this site thinking they are hot stuff and that every issue is a waste of time. Listen, just because you think it's a joke doesn't mean that it's a joke to everyone.

Listen, the afterlife is no joke. You are probably saying this because you've never encountered any paranormal activity. If you were a restless soul, then you would be cursing someone like yourself out right now.

Please don't strain yourself explaining to us.

I pay no concern in regards to what you think of me because this proposal is unsolicited.

I still invite you to produce your argument on why the government should subsidize something which isn't wanted. And in addition to that, you have the burden to prove the existence of the paranormal.

Let me tell you something, there is never 100% proof of anything in this world. If you dig closely in your network of friends and family, you will hear a ghost story or a paranormal experience. That should be enough for you. They say it's all in the head, but I know people who have encountered paranormal experiences and saw the exact same thing each other saw. This means that they both have to be identical in the mind, which we know is impossible. Everyone is unique.

Spirits exist all around us. Some are harmless and some aren't so friendly. Our government spends billions of dollars on stupid stuff all the time and they are getting away with it. What if they invested some money into finding more out on the afterlife? Where do we go when we die? We don't like thinking about that type of stuff, but years down the road, it will happen someday. I'd spend some tax dollars on finding that out then helping Pedro get his illegal-ass some surgery money.

Yea whatever. However, I know your post you made up there had nothing to do with the debate at all. You should keep a journal or something.

I clarified that the reason why this proposal is "stupid" is because it is unsolicited. My replies are only as relevant as yours are, Jared.

Something should not be treated as it exists simply because we cannot prove that it does not. By that logic we can assume that a giant pink elephant rules the universe simply because it cannot be directly refuted.

Beyond this logical fallacy, you have provided no substantial empirical evidence.

Theology is a hobby. The government has no responsibility in funding hobbies and by separation of church and state, it constitutionally cannot, even if it wanted to.

And wasted tax dollars should not be redirected to other wasteful spending programs. They should be given back to the tax payers.

Yea the government doesn't fund anything worthwhile. You should be a rep for the government.

I hope you are not suggesting that subsidizing "ghostbusters" is superior to all other funding including defense, court system, and the government's constitutional duties.

Precisely.

Hahahaha! Love it! (Thanks for the laugh. )

I shall not.

BUT- (I guess I shall) they are not feasible, get very few results, so why should my taxmoney go to fund them?

And I hope you wake up and smell the coffee. I see what the government is doing, and what it should be doing, and there's a big gap in between.

Tax money? If your birth-year is 94, then you have a long way to go sweetheart.

Not really. You just didn't expect anyone like me coming and arguing against what you said.

I saw your comment which was in favor of this ludicrous proposal, as you are the first person to post in almost every topic, and I was expecting you to argue against me since you are a very active member on this website.

I see the irony of being told to "wake up" by a person who considers military, court, education, infrastructure, and human services not worthwhile to fund, but is proposing a subsidy for paranormal investigators.

If our government is as inefficient as you claim it to be, then even a subsidy for paranormal investigators would end up in failure.

I truly hope that this is one elaborate joke, Jared.

I personally believe the government should fund a bit of the tax money to paranormal investigators because this study of paranormal events is quite important to our society and should be. I say yes paranormal investigators should be funded.

Funding doesn't end up in failure. Government redevelopment loans, and even loans for small business owners don't end up as failures. They are a valuable asset to the economy.

It's not a joke, it's just thinking outside of the box. You can stay it in it all you want, it's America.

Dumbest. Topic. Ever.

Oh yea? Who are you, Barack Obama? Do you have any legislative power to make a decision like that? No. That's what I thought.

Ad hominem attacks will not explain why this would be at all a good use of taxpayer's time and money even to be worth debating and considering through a legislative body, much less to be implemented and funded by that body.

I don't need to have any legislative powers to be assured that this topic is idiotic or to make that decision and assert it as the standard position.

It is incumbent upon people who want to have the public's treasury opened to them to make the case that provisioning them with funds will provide us with some greater benefit or protect us against some negative cost and they should make this case to the public first so as to assure that there will be legislatures with sympathetic views, selected by that public, in order to carry out the proposal.

You haven't made your case by worrying about my legislative abilities.

You know Sun Tzu, I really have missed your input on this site for the past few months or so.

I see at least four or five other commentators saying more or less the same things as I do with some regularity. My voice is hardly necessary.

I'm not looking for any average citizen's outlook.

I would like to be surprised more often rather than see a continuum of voter ignorance (often deliberate and somewhat rational, given the inputs of effort and energy required to stay abreast of news and politics) and irrationality (often much worse than mere ignorance of events) on the part of the average citizen.

So I am looking for any average citizen's outlook because it gives me a better idea of what our politics will actually look like rather than the world I live in.