Sure, but what is the alternative? Government subsidies keep the whole thing afloat, there is no removing them. And obviously that is by design. There is a mar

Sure, but what is the alternative? Government subsidies keep the whole thing afloat, there is no removing them. And obviously that is by design. There is a marginal utility to increasing funding, but that isn't the point, the point is that the subsidies guarantee that the receiver is dependent on the sender.