Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

It is all a matter of definition, but we feel, and this is the mandate we received, that in order to provide service, to improve service, to invest in research and development of new products and services, to raise and to modernize the equipment that we use, for which we need capital, we should generate enough revenue, enough earnings, to provide for that at no cost to the taxpayers.

Hypothesis: Investment in research and development is funded with taxpayer dollars.