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It seems like all you're doing is agreeing that there is no plausible non-corrupt reason to do that.
The problem is not that the government is helping the problem is that private capital is getting the benefits instead of all the citizens. I think Americans have after decades of propaganda are stuck with government bad narrative as both parties are captured by capitalist that won't allow the their bought politicians to do anything for citizens. Mamdani in NY will be an interesting case study in the future.
The government is giving them money -- to do something stupid. There is no apparent non-corrupt reason to do that. It wouldn't be better if the government was also offering ordinary people cash money to destroy productive fruit trees.
Whereas if the government was to help "all of the citizens" then they would all be getting the money and not have to do something stupid in order to get it. But the thing that looks like is either just lowering their taxes to begin with, or doing a UBI if the point of it is redistribution. In neither case is paying anyone to do economically inefficient nonsense a good policy.