When a company gets bailed out with taxpayer money, why is it not owned by the public now?

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When a company gets bailed out with taxpayer money, why is it not owned by the public now?

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That’s often exactly what happens. In the crash of 2008, the UK government bought lots of shares of RBS (a bank) to make it majority publicly owned.

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