In the end, “subsidies” are just that: the government takes money from people like me to give to people like you so you can purchase a car. How is that fair?

As for free market forces, we haven’t had those in this country in over a century. So your question is kind of pointless.

GM, Chrysler, and all the rest (banks included) should have been left to die. There’s no such thing as “too big to fail.” I’d like to see California fail too. Maybe then people will wake up and realize that the socialistic trough for government payouts isn’t bottomless. It comes from somewhere. My state is doing just fine and had a yearly budget surplus. Why is that possible here and not elsewhere?

GM, which has gotten more bailout than any other US car firm, only employs a 3rd of it’s work-force in America.

The Aptera is a sustainably made electric vehicle ready to hit the roads later this year. What could they do with 15 billion dollars that GM asked the US to “write-off?” That 15 billion is gone and will never come back, and GM is not going to be able to compete with electric car start-ups due to it’s monolithic nature. The more money we waste on them, the more likely good and ready-to-go technology like the Aptera will have to struggle to catch up because the government is socializing failed companies instead of supporting up-and-coming innovators.