Subsidies only ease the symptoms but don’t cure the disease.
DEFINITION of 'Subsidy' from Investopedia:
A benefit given by the government to groups or individuals usually in the form of a cash payment or tax reduction. The subsidy is usually given to remove some type of burden and is often considered to be in the interest of the public.
Politics play an important part in subsidization. In general, the left is more in favor of having subsidized industries, while the right feels that industry should stand on its own without public funds.
In laymans terms: "Subsidies" are in fact nothing more than a Government sanctioned transfer of wealth through force of law, from one economic or social sector to another. No right thinking Conservative would support subsidies of ANY kind.