This is a red herring though. Your company isn't losing 4.75 million. They're likely going to lose 0-10% of that. The actual question is should tax payers gi

This is a red herring though. Your company isn't losing 4.75 million. They're likely going to lose 0-10% of that. The actual question is should tax payers give a company that has ~4.5 million in cash and is worth some multiple of that some free money? And that should be an emphatic no.