I’ve tried explaining it several times but I’ll try it once more and make it as simple as I can.
I’ll use 2 current person(s) as examples:
Elon Musk has received over $6B in taxpayer funds, his net worth is, or at least did, approach or even exceed $1B, I don’t know his salary nor do I care. What I care about is the taxpayer funded all his endeavors, all his companies profits combined don’t equal $500M. His companies routinely are unprofitable and routinely receive gvt benefits.
Jeff Bezos, his company has received massive subsidies by way of the taxpayers, prominent among those is his sweetheart deal with the post office, remember we pay the usps shortfalls.
These (as a % of the total) are proverbial drops in the bucket of the corporate welfare program in this country, those programs create substantial net worth for the primary shareholders in these companies.
Then there’s the bank bail (hand) outs, the airline bail (hand) outs, the auto bail (hand) outs, the rail road bail (hand) outs. Frankly, even this doesn’t do the gvt’s crony handouts list justice. The list is long and beneficiaries are mostly incredibly wealthy to begin with, that they’re wealthy is of no concern that the gvt uses my money to increase that wealth, with no returning benefit, is of great concern. As I mentioned I’ve benefited as well, as have many/most, that doesn’t make it any less wrong.