If that is your position then the word subsidy lacks all meaning because pretty much everything the government does with tax revenue is a subsidy by this defini

If that is your position then the word subsidy lacks all meaning because pretty much everything the government does with tax revenue is a subsidy by this definition. Also, it would not just be those lobbies calling their representatives to get that idea overturned, it would be a majority of the populace once they ran the numbers on their cost of living increase from that policy.