Most people are economically illiterate and don't understand what subsidies actually imply. They literally only "hurt" you if you have the local industry to ha

Most people are economically illiterate and don't understand what subsidies actually imply. They literally only "hurt" you if you have the local industry to harm to begin with. Otherwise, if someone else is paying the subsidy, it gives you a good for cheaper than you could have had otherwise. The current admin just turns this up to 11 with their ideologically driven nonsense.