Whenever a Corporation receives Subsidies or a Government Bailout, it ought to be conditioned on new Sovereign Wealth Funds receiving a share of the profits. These Sovereign Wealth Funds would then be dedicated to specific purposes (funding Education, Social Security, a UBI, etc.) whilst also securing and accumulating wealth (through stock diversification and other means) to increase its output independently of government contributions. Politicians shouldn't be able to take money out of these funds, nor mandate an increase in their spending beyond their ability to sustain and survive, but they would be able to direct the budgeting of their outputs. Having Sovereign Wealth Funds for reasons like that also allow people to more specifically control what kinds of public charity they might wish to give, adding an element of fiscal democracy to budgeting that would be previously impossible. This system also has the potential to enable lower taxes or allow these Wealth Funds to positively influence consumer pricing (for the benefit of the consumer).
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