When government fails, it's other government's fault, but that is not an indictment of government. Government fails so hard that for the past two years, their vested interests resulted in a public utility wasting taxes to the extent that their utility is unusable, but that is better than some rich bugger with vested interests in seeing the trains run on time profiting for her trouble.

Somehow it's not easy for me to understand how someone can cling to an ideology so obstinately when it flies in the face of all readily available evidence before them.

More esoterically, it's worth reading up on economic theories regarding the effects of subsidies on prices. Particularly the effects of subsidies on monopolies. TLDR version: It makes things more expensive than what some rich bloke would be able to charge.