There are eg environmental and health costs paid due to fossil fuel usage. These costs are paid (in Canada) by taxpayers via the govt since FF producers don’t pay them.
Certainly seems like a subsidy to me.
Yes. That is the definition [1]:
subsidy noun
sub· si· dy | \ ˈsəb-sə-dē , -zə-\
plural subsidies
Definition of subsidy
: a grant or gift of money: such as
a : a sum of money formerly granted by the British
Parliament to the crown and raised by special
taxation
b : money granted by one state to another
c : a grant by a government to a private person or
company to assist an enterprise deemed
advantageous to the public
Funding women's shelters is subsidizing the abuse of women!
It's politicized equivocation.
I'm fairly sure funding women's shelters is the opposite since victims of domestic violence can go to shelters to avoid abuse. But if it turns out there's a direct link between something like alcohol consumption and domestic abuse, you could posit that subsidizing alcohol in some way also subsidizes domestic violence.
WTO definition of subsidies includes "government revenue that is otherwise due, foregone or not collected (e.g. fiscal incentives such as tax credits)". Pdf: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/24-scm.pdf
The EU considered the UK's reduction in fuel tax as a subsidy.