Why couldn't micro-chip companies invest their own money?
We subsidize multi-billion dollar companies on a regular basis, while refusing to help those asking for simply the minimum requirements of a dignified life.
The CHIPS Act actually provided a $76 billion blank check to micro-chip companies including a $24 billion tax break. For $76 billion we could expand Medicare to cover hearing and vision care - or what corporate shills in both parties now want you to believe are "magical unicorns"