Boring topic, I know. So why bring it up?
The "New Dawn Government" has withdrawn the subsidy on Petroleum based products and will do the same to electricity prices in 2021
Before you remove something you should first find out why it was put in place
Rather than get into the history of the different subsidies I will instead take a large step back and discuss the worldview of subsidies. But in order to understand subsidies we must first understand prices.
So if prices are the conveyance of information then subsidies are, as one person put it, the equivalent of make up on the face. It covers blemishes. This is not always wrong. And this is the crux of the argument. A good subsidy program is temporary.
A good example is the relationship of parents to their children. Parents are to temporarily subsidize the life and lifestyle of their children. Entitlement is the result of a continuous subsidy on the life of the child. This is why you get people over the age of 18 still riding the coat tails of their parents even to the extent of having their bills being paid for.
So the problem is not that the subsidy exists. God created a world such that subsidies can be a good things but they were never meant to be permanent. To show this we look at our relationship with God. God created us and truly, in him we live and move and have our being but he does not subsidize our existence. Actions have consequences and as we feel the consequences we are able to course correct.
Think worldview rather than narrow. The world is on a mission to convince you subsidies and social welfare programs are the way forward, but this is far from the truth. Reject the lie and see what is really happening. Bad things happen when people are permanently insulated from the effects of their actions