Subsidies are pure corruption, there is no argument in favor of corruption. Buy a stake in the manufacturer, control their prices, same as some utilities companies, if the taxpayers pay, they should get their stake's worth as a group.

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cyanydeez a day ago | parent [-]

No, conceptually.

Yes, like everything in government, they can be twisted. Your logic is fill in the blank, so we should just not have government.

If you put crooks in charge, of course, everything becomes a con.

	▲	bigbadfeline a day ago \| parent [-]
		> Your logic is fill in the blank True, in short consider Tesla, jack up the prices as much as the market can bear, as usual. A bunch of people, who don't need subsidies, get them to buy at luxury prices. Little to no investment in low cost, mass production, chase capitalization instead. Environment... who cares, large trucks still pollute the most. LNG bad, etc. > If you put crooks in charge, of course, everything becomes a con. That's true too, but some schemes are easier to con than others. I don't see why we should act in ways that help the cons. > so we should just not have government. That's not my opinion. Utilities are government controlled or used to be anyways, I consider that necessary.