> Why should government subsidies exist in general?
Bro... I think you missed the civics class where they explain how economies/governments work.
tl;dr the magical free market isn't, the world is complicated, and governments are supposed to help their people, which includes providing things, like money, to do things, like advance the state of the civilization, its people, its businesses, products, services, technologies, defenses, education, health, food, energy, etc etc etc etc etc
> Why is everyone acting like the sky is falling when an elected official does the things people voted for them to do?
Two words: National Socialism. Sometimes the people are morons, and the leaders psychopaths.
Bro... I think you missed the civics class where they explain how economies/governments work.
tl;dr the magical free market isn't, the world is complicated, and governments are supposed to help their people, which includes providing things, like money, to do things, like advance the state of the civilization, its people, its businesses, products, services, technologies, defenses, education, health, food, energy, etc etc etc etc etc
> Why is everyone acting like the sky is falling when an elected official does the things people voted for them to do?
Two words: National Socialism. Sometimes the people are morons, and the leaders psychopaths.