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by DarkTree 3885 days ago
Subsidies are not just for services that benefit the public. They are used to both fund capital-intensive industries that our country relies on and to make our energy generation competitive globally. To compare the energy industry to a single company like Twitter, which provides a product that is not needed in any sense is pretty far-reaching. Energy utilities provide regulated returns that are very consistent. Who knows when Twitter won't be cool anymore.