[mushishi]

Sure, I'm all for taxes.

As an individual after I've voted, and I still want to contribute some of the earnings I've made, how do I go about that? Is it the best just to start political influencing. Why not directly give money to specific areas of science. Making science a little bit transparent to general public might give motivation for people spend some money that is not distributed similarly as tax payers.

Currently people are supporting e.g. musicians through patron-like systems, why not scientist. I think there could be a risk in that scientist would need to start wasting their time managing some kind of public display of what they do.

There definitely should be a really solid financing from tax only, and it would be horrible if a system was created to undermine that so that you would need public collection of money for projects. I'm not saying that.

[robotresearcher]

There are many charities funding research. They tend to be medical, but not always.

The Royal Society funds basic research, and is funded by donations. It's been running since 1660.

https://royalsociety.org/about-us/funding-finances/