Thad is the weekend at Bernie’s candidate. He is being propped up and carted around by the Mississippi mafia. You are right. They are basically keeping him alive (politically) to keep the cash rolling into Mississippi.
And the subsidies are ironically sapping away Mississippi’s dignity.
If every single soul in MS wanted to chip into a statewide charity pot that would be great because it would be voluntary. But tax/spend is asking for waste, if not also for perverse bribery incentives.