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> that's magical thinking, and usually from corrupted politicians turfing their funders.

Subsidization is the game that corrupt politicians love. Not so much lowering taxes (and therefore their power to choose the beneficiaries among their friends/special interests). Unless of course the tax reduction is via a myriad of specialized loopholes and deductions, then it could be directed at a chosen few.



Spending money and cutting taxes are essentially equivalent, though.




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