There are a few things there to unpack.
First is the fact that the only way the government will ever get the books balanced in this country is if we stop wasteful spending. The most successful way that the government of the day in the 1990s was able to get there was through significant reviews of every dollar spent. We would like to see the federal government actually start to exercise that same level of caution that its predecessors did and actually start doing serious audits of all government programming.
Of course it's not a good use of tax dollars. It's also not a good use of tax dollars when we see governments handing out cash to any business, regardless of the purpose. Generally, we're opposed to all forms of corporate welfare and think that this government needs to stop handing cash out, especially unaudited, to big business.