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Agreed. These shouldn't just be grants, they should be investments. The US gov't should come away from this owning stock in those companies. I don't think the gov't should be in the business of owning companies in general (not a fan of nationalizing businesses except in some narrow circumstances), so I'd say they should divest themselves after some pre-determined period, or somehow separate their ownership from meddling for (partisan) political reasons (a tall order, I know). But the people (via the government) should be able to get some return on this investment, beyond just "our economy is less fragile because now we have more critical manufacturing capability". Which is certainly nothing to sneeze at, but IMO isn't enough.

Definitely not an ownership stake, but perhaps a royalty on equity. For every dollar in equity sold or transacted the government receives a royalty payment of some percentage.

Don't income taxes of employees and sales taxes of their products constitute the public sharing in the success of those billionaires?

Bezos may not pay income tax, but all his engineers do...

> Bezos may not pay income tax

citation needed