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"risk" -_-' Because no private business has ever been bailed out or received any public funding, right?



Yes, that is also bad. Public bodies choosing to give private companies money because otherwise they'd fail is bad stewardship of our taxes.

But also this point is silly. Plenty of money and effort is risked and lost with no bailout. Bailouts are extremely unusual in the grand scheme of things.


Not rarer than bankrupcy.


Are you sure? According to Statistica there were over 700k bankruptcies in the US from 2000-2020 [0]. How many bailouts have there been?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/817918/number-of-busines...





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