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ls612today at 5:12 AM1 replyview on HN

???

The government had passed a law appropriating funds to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing in the US and spent some of it buying intel stock. How is that the government seizing Intel at gunpoint? I mean aside from the libertarian argument that the taxation necessary to raise those funds is theft?


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lovichtoday at 5:42 AM

Did you miss the part where it was already awarded to them, but the Trump admin then made it conditional?