I think we have to figure out what the baseline is and what the finance department has used for its modelling. What would be done otherwise? What's the counterfactual here? If this deduction did not exist, how much investment would we get over time, and how much would we get right away?
Let's set the baseline and then measure it. We have to figure out a few things. We have to figure out what additional new investment there is as a result of this measure and what investment is brought forward and made more quickly rather than down the road, and then measure that against what would have happened otherwise. It's $36 billion over five years in foregone revenue. That's a lot of money. It's not enough just to say that investment has gone up; therefore, $36 billion is getting what we paid for. I think we need to figure out what would have happened otherwise, because there are a lot of things going on. There are a lot of moving pieces in the investment world. It's not just tax measures that encourage people to invest.
