and i give as the example the idea that orrville redenbacher got the r&d tax credit to develop microwave popcorn. now you could make a case, if it doesn't stick in your teeth of maybe that was a good help to society. but in all seriousness, i would love it if you know of or could dig out in the accounting research if anybody has done a study on what the actual usefulness, seriously, to society has been in many of these tax expenditure areas. and if you would be willing to spend a few minutes of your spare time and dig out something like, that i would sure love to have it. >> i can certainly look at that for you. but i think the one thing that has been looked at in the literature is in an r&d study, for example, when they look at the dataer, they might see what looks like an increase in spending. but what has been looked as, you know, is that really more r&d that results in more products or is it, say, a rise in the input prices. and there is actually one study that shows that all the increase in r&d spending actually goes to salaries, r&d. so it's not more r&d, it's just paying the engin

and i give as the example that orville redenbacher got the r and d tax create to develop micro wave popcorn. now you can make a case if it doesn't stick in your teeth of maybe that was a good, good help to society. i'd love it if you know of or could dig out in the accounting research if anybody's done this study on what the actual usefulness seriously to society has been. in many of these tax expenditure areas. if you would be willing to spend a few minutes of your spare time and dig out something like that, i'd sure love to have it. >> i can certainly look at that for you. i think the one thing that has been looked at in the literature in an a and d study when they look at the data they might see what's looked at as an increase in spending. what's looked at is that really more r and d that results in more products or does it arise in the input prizes. there's one study that shows that all the increase in r and d spending goes to salaries r and d. it's not more r and d it's paying engineers more. it's whether the input providers demand a higher price for the inputs when they know that the

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i give as the example as orville redenbacher got the r & d tax credit to develop microwave popcorn.you couldn't make a case if it didn't stick in your teeth but it could help the society but in all seriousness, i'd love it if you know of or could dig out in the accounting research if anybody has done a study on what the actual usefulness the society has been in many of these tax expenditure areas. if you would be willing to spend a few minutes of your spare time and dig out something like that, i'd sure love to have it. >> i can certainly look at that for you. i think the one thing that has been looked at in the literature is in an r & d study, for example, when they look at the data, they might see what looks like an increase in spending. but what's been looked at is, you know -- is that really more r & d that results in more products or does it say a rise in the input prices? and there's actually one study that shows that all the increase in r & d spending actually goes to salaries, r & ds so it's not more r & d it's just paying engineers more. you know, whether the input provider