When a company gets bailed out with taxpayer money, why is it not owned by the public now?
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It depends how they do it. When the [NZ government bailed out Air NZ in 2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Air_New_Zealand), that’s exactly what happened. The government gave them $885m and got an 80% shareholding in return.
There are of course a lot of different ways it can be done
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