"I take it you’re not much at seeing viewpoints other than your own?" Right back at you. 

"By your logic, why would we think of the financial situations of others when “investing”?" What?

"Again - these tax breaks are given to private entities without ever being voted on by the public" Representative democracy - how does it work?

"because they rarely pay great returns to that public." Wrong. 

"Frankly, while it may be the reality, that’s why the financial sector is so despised." Here, you've played your cards. "Finance" is much more than the chimera of the "financial sector". The big investment banks and large corporate banks have little to do with much of the basic mechanics of capital - aka finance, that are the grease to the cogs of capitalism. This is like blaming the math department at harvard for a cashier giving you the wrong change.  When we, as the public, reduce complicated public decisions to such straw men as "the financial sector," everyone loses.