> To take the argument further, you could say may actual citizens don't benefit from it, for example if they live healthy, or don't have children, or pay for a private education, etc. Subsidies are rarely fair and create bad incentives.
"Many citizens" and "Subsidies are rarely fair" seems horribly distorted in the context of free education and health care in Norway.
IMNHO you have a rather distorted idea of "fair" if you think that everyone should get the same, rather than that everyone should get what they need (or could benefit from). The two would only ever be the same in some fantasy realm where everyone started out on equal footing.
"Many citizens" and "Subsidies are rarely fair" seems horribly distorted in the context of free education and health care in Norway.
IMNHO you have a rather distorted idea of "fair" if you think that everyone should get the same, rather than that everyone should get what they need (or could benefit from). The two would only ever be the same in some fantasy realm where everyone started out on equal footing.