Subsidies are not inherently bad; the public is allowed to decide if there’s something it genuinely wants to subsidize and thus have more of than would be dicta

Subsidies are not inherently bad; the public is allowed to decide if there’s something it genuinely wants to subsidize and thus have more of than would be dictated by pure market forces, even if that means paying extra. The problem with subsidies is that they are usually a) not decided on democratically and b) for things we don’t actually want more of, like fossil fuel production. But children are a perfectly reasonable thing to want to subsidize, since without them we go extinct.