> Because when you subsidize, the taxpayer is paying for it. You are socializing the costs and privatizing the profits.

I think that's a really good point. It's extracting money from consumers through taxes and handing them to industry in the hopes they innovate.

Tariffs though. In that case you're extracting the money from the consumer (through the international organizations being taxed) and giving the profits to the government. What are they going to do with it?