There are subsidies, and then there is tax abatement.
If you work at a good paying job and pay taxes, and your neighbor runs a small business, makes what you make, yet gets tax abatement because he employs several people, is it fair to you?
Remember that he not only pays his own taxes, but his employees pay taxes as well. So all told, his actions produce far more taxes than you pay.
However, if government pays him taxpayer money as a subsidy, it is a different kettle of fish, because even though it means he can hire more people who will then pay taxes, government is taking that subsidy out of *your* hide, to benefit government.