The concept of corporate subsidies do not contribute to economic development but creates laziness, artificially inflated prices, and economic chaos. When a corporation is subsidized by the Govenrment, it must do everything the state asks of it if it is to survive. The fact that the Federal Government used money to subsidize Mc Donalds in other parts of the world does not contribute to the growth of a corporation. If the Government wants to make changes in the methods of the Corporation, it could force the Corporation to do things it would not be able to do if only to receive the subsidy.
The general public also suffer since they feel that the subsidies will protect their lifestyle even though in the long run, the general public would suffer because of high prices or rationing of products.
In the same realm that State and Church should be separated, the State and the Corporations should be separated. This entails a total separation without subsidies, without contributions on both sides [i.e.: Corporations giving money to the Government or Politicians and the Government Contributing to the Corporations]. Corporations and Government are a mixture that should be avoided in order to stimulate competition and get the juices of energy for new concepts to take root. If Ford, Edison, and Firestone were alive today, they could not function in today’s overregulated economy with the Corporate Subsidy being a part of the agony of doing business in the United States of America.
Coporations associating themselves with Governments usually have a way of losing money after the administation or government falls. An example of this was India and Coca Cola after the defeat of Indira Gandhi for reelection as Prime Minister of India in 1977. When we go back to Corporate Subsidies, the fact that it diminishes competition and does not help the companies, the employees, nor the area at large where the corporation is based.
Corporate Subsidies should never be used since the false sense of security that it gives to the people of the United States of America could prove fatal to the social fabric if it were to be removed. In order to avoid the pain and damage to the social fabric, Corporate Subsidies must never be allowed to function in the economy of the United States of America if there is to be a free market. A company and or a corporation has a product and as long as the people want the product, there will be more manufacturing of such products. If the people tire of such products, the company should find newer products or whither away without the help of the State in saving the company.