

You mean the shit operator which is 50% of the time delayed and has no air-conditioning even in the summer?
Also DB Fernverkehr is not funded by taxes.
Usually in Systems that don’t allow private cherry-pickers the profitable routes subsidize the less profitable ones. But that obviously doesn’t work with them, so those routes get axed from long distance services, as they aren’t subsidized in Germany like regional ones
ÖBB PV also doesn’t receive subsidies on the Weststrecke. The rest is thankfully still subsidized and operated by the state operator.
Unfortunately the EU doesn’t allow this direct subsidies anymore after 2031.