[sbinthree]

As a hardcore capitalist, I do not understand why the government gives companies money under any circumstances. The government should provide fast business courts (like Delaware), decharter any company that abuses their market power, price in externalities like pollution and otherwise never give money to companies.

[verdverm]

In the US, the government cannot produce things. Obviously they need things to operate, so they must buy them. Roads, rockets, and pencils all fall under this