As long as everyone is clear about the difference between a subsidy and a tax credit, it’s great. Tax credits that allow businesses keep more of their money are good. Subsidies from the taxpayers, bad.
Right now, the governor of Alaska is undoing some of the higher taxes SP saddled the oil companies with when she was governor. She took money from business to dole out to voters. That’s not the free market.
It is the free market when Alaskan “voters” are the OWNERS of the resource. She got a better deal for the “owners” at the expense of oil businesses that have had record profits recently.
Sounds exactly like the free market when you are allowing what you own to be used, and the person using it is making huge profits, to renegotiate the terms of use so that the owners ALSO make more out of the deal.
Sounds like a “win - win” scenario that the free market excels at.