I'm not sure much of anything new would ever come out, if someone somewhere didn't subsidize it, in our own operations, we do this with any new enterprise to get it up and going, we rob from peter to pay paul, until its proven and paying back making us money. We call it business and do it every day, its the reason we use collateral to borrow money and make machine purchases. Large scale business does it on a much grander scale, yes using tax dollars as an incentive to do large scale anything, no different than railroads of years gone by to settle the west, I believe they received land along their right of ways, to offset their costs via the government in the form of a tax incentive to do it in the first place, but maybe I learned history wrong and someone can correct me.
This has always been done, hopefully always will, its how new technology is developed, we also use tax dollars for the military and also private business to develop new technology as well, not sure we'd have gps without it, same goes for airplanes, rockets, satellites, and hundreds of other things we use every day and just forget where it came from..........................tax dollars and none were profitable when they came out and yet we still have all lived and nobody has died from hunger due to new technology coming out. I'm not sure, but when dollars go into circulation, in any form, they spur the economy and someone gains, same for the government and despite how much I hate political advertising, those dollars do spur the economy and someone gains from the money being spent, and yes we all have to suffer through it.
I'm also thinking, but again probably wrong, but HEF has allowed political advertising in an effort to offset costs, meaning none of us would be doing any discussing if not for a subsidy from advertising dollars to keep this site open, don't think this site makes money per say, but needs it to keep going, so where do you guys draw the line on subsidies?? Only what directly benefits us and our operations and how we do business or those in business on a much grander scale in the form of alternative energy?? I for one like gps, satellite based technology, phones and hundreds of other things I touch every day, and most of it not all were subsidized by both the government and business's everywhere long before they were profitable. Just a thought to ponder over.
