"To the economist's way of thinking, there ideally shouldn't be subsidies at all," says Hsiao Tai-chi, an associate research fellow in the Institute of Economics at Academia Sinica. Discrepancies arise in practice, however. It's the same the world over; the only difference is in degree.
「在經濟學者的理想中應完全不補貼」，中央研究院經濟研究所副研究員蕭代基表示，但在施政上卻往往會有出入，而且全世界都一樣，只是補貼程度上的差別。