Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by pseudocomposer 919 days ago
Businesses that don’t get subsidies pay the same exact taxes. And businesses pay very little tax in the first place. Finally, tax revenue isn’t an ownership stake in a company; no amount of money is.
1 comments

> Businesses that don’t get subsidies pay the same exact taxes.

But the point of a subsidy is to create a business where one did not, possibly could not exist before. Therefore the tax revenue coming from companies created by subsidies is in addition to other businesses tax revenue, not replacing it.