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Can you provide an example?

This might be the first time I have heard a critique from that angle.

Many of my capital-skeptic friends were against the bank and insurance bailouts without meaningful consequences.

They are still pretty irked TBH.

I think of these people as 'liberal' in the 'leftist' sense of the word. Maybe you mean 'neo-liberal', as in the economic sense?

Or maybe you just have a different demographic group in mind that I am unaware of.

Regardless, I would like to learn more.

In particular I GM in mind. A clear cut case of corporate welfare going to a badly ran corporation, but which had strong political connections.

Were they defending corporate cheese or just against the idea of letting the economy nosedive and hope for the best?

I would have described the ~2008-9 bailouts exactly the opposite of that.

Lots of people were very critical of them, and they weren't gifts, they were the government investing in those companies (buying stock) so they didn't go under. As a whole, those investments ended up being fairly profitable for the government.