You just sold it to me, though. Before, I thought only lemons mattered.

See my point ? You have to tell your taxpayers why you spend their taxes, they can't guess it. And if they know nothing abt what you do with it, they'll just vote for the next magical unicorn telling them they're actually stolen by a conspiracy of elitist universities.

Expecting people to be clever just because they exist is optimistic at best :)