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So we're taxed in order to generate more money in taxes... How is that a "return on investment"? When is the return, exactly? And if you follow the logic about
by matthew_morgan 10y ago
So we're taxed in order to generate more money in taxes... How is that a "return on investment"? When is the return, exactly?
And if you follow the logic about jobs, why doesn't the government (i.e. the taxpayer) fund every potentially profitable venture (without asking for any share of the rewards)?
- finid 10y agoI'm not saying that it's the best arrangement, but that's how it works now. Most university research are publicly funded via the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). So without such funding, most research will be grounded. Companies like Yahoo!, Google, Sun Microsystems (RIP), Akamai, etc, were/are the result of publicly-funded research.