If this were a 20 million dollar grant I'd agree with you... but two billion is a lot of fucking money. We could build a good amount of government housing in cities to help house homeless and at risk families, we could fund food assistance programs for decades, we could invest more in supporting the arts (a little goes a long way when it comes to theater productions), and, as i said, public transit. I do agree generally with the "why not both" but we're underfunding all the services I mentioned so why don't we put that money towards public services instead of raising my salary.

Edit: Oh also, we already have pretty robust SR&ED programs that significantly subsidize my wage even though I produce far more value than I cost. I'd just say... we're actually subsidizing this shit a lot already, we don't need more.