They love corporate tax handouts.

Texas will literally buy the land for your factory, build it, and lease it to you for free. AND then they'll recruit and train all your employees for free.

Of course, however, a tax cut is not a subsidy. Economic concepts can very easily be wrongly conflated with each other or misreported by the press or politicians. There's an obvious qualitative difference between a government subsidy (the act of taking property from some to give to others) and a tax break (the government merely stealing less).

As far as this bill specifically goes, I haven't read the entire thing, but the bullet points seem to be all about reducing tax burdens. As an overall opinion, I think more people and industries ought to have tax breaks.

Given the extreme shortsightedness of Europe's leaders in trying to tackle their energy needs, I have little doubt that this act will come back to bite all of us in some way.

Alaska just announced a record high PFD for this year, over $2B payout, highest in the programs 41 years. And the reasons for it being so high? “Energy costs and inflation” (totally unrelated side note: our Republican governor is up for re-election).

Not when their donors are on the take.

True, but making sure there is enough energy is more important to them (see Europe as an example of what happens when government fails at this).

Democrats also consider energy a priority, but don't like hydrocarbon fuel, so are conflicted with bills like this - I bet it won't get every Democrat on board either.

Also, the current situation isn't directly a subsidy, it's a tax reduction, which is sort of a subsidy if you squint, but it's different enough. Republicans do like tax reductions.

only to poor people

they also loved covid ppp loan forgiveness

This is empirically not true.