When the Left is in power, they shut down and criminalize the Right. When the Right is in power, they shut down and criminalize the Left. This should not be… and is a terrible precedent.

"Taxpayer money" is the people being defrauded by the United States Government. Start there

You might have it backwards. Maybe none of this is worth using the govt's monopoly on force to collect for. Maybe both sides shooting down the others grift is exactly what we should not hate to see.