Better to let the government pay the full $X, rather than keeping companies around that only succeed because they depend on the government... How is wasting mo

Better to let the government pay the full $X, rather than keeping companies around that only succeed because they depend on the government... How is wasting more money and having less productive output better? Or do you mean, if they could pay people as little as they wanted? Of course. In this world, companies don't need to compete with the "stay home and watch TV and get free money" option, so they can pay less. Your "subsidy" is actually directly harmful to the people you claim it benefits. ...keep their employees alive....They'd be richer, but less and less money would end up mving around in the economy, and everything would slowly grind to a halt. And lots of people would starve. Yet somehow I'm surrounded by about 1 billion living people with a GDP growth rate double that of the United States. Your theory doesn't fit any of the facts.