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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: The government should regulate not subsidize

I think that regulation alone can solve a lot of the historical problems that have come with pure free market.

An example is the meat industry. Market competition made us increase our production until our morals were compromised and the animals found themselves in inhumane living conditions.  

Regulation of free market is okay because it still allows us to all compete with each other under given rules that we all follow. Subsidisation is immoral because it favors one particular company and infringes the ability of other companies to compete which decreases overall efficiency. 

To be clear I understand that subsidizing can be an effective tool for the government to get things done, but I think it's up to people to get those things done and it's not the government's place to interfere. 

This is a moral argument but I am a consequentialist so this should be an easy Delta for some of you. Please change my mind :]

UPDATE:

 Reddit you never disappoint. My mind is changed.

1) Taxes and subsidies are two parts of the same tool and can't exist without each other.

2) We need both of them in the name of self defense


And side note:

A whole industry should be subsidized, never a specific company.
gpt
Subsidies may be essential to national security.

For example, a country that is uncompetitive in a core area for defense (food production, energy, minerals) may logically choose to prop up industries that would otherwise be destroyed by free trade with other countries just to plan for the day when war may cut off those trade relationships.