If you bail out a company that generates only losses for years it is pretty safe to assume that this is a bad investment. (Edit: would you invest in these companies? I doubt it)<p>I&#x27;m not saying that turnarounds are impossible (Apple) but what the government is in effect doing is to take resources (taxes) from viable entities and giving it to those that are simply not viable. (at least at the moment)<p>Or the government itself takes more debt to pay for it. Japans debt to GDP ratio is currently it 175% which is insanely high, this can&#x27;t go on forever.<p>In my view the better solution would be to let these companies go bankrupt. The investors lose money, employees are let go but the resources will not vanish into thin air.<p>Someone else will buy it and hopefully build something more viable. Government can then reduce its expenditure and maybe even reduce taxes, which would also help in the long run.