In the movie Tucker A Man and His Dream, how did government involvement help and hurt Tucker?It was really difficult for me to understand this...

I am not really certain about the helping role of
government in the film.  Coppola's film really presents the idea that government is in
collusion with big business to squeeze out the competition.  In the film, "the Big
Three" are able to enlist the support of a Michigan Senator in order to pressure Tucker
and use the force of the government against he and his efforts.  It is government whose
pressure is brought to bear on Tucker and is what ends up causing him a great deal of
challenge.  I am not entirely certain that this level of government intervention even
hoped to provide some level of help to Tucker.  The "Big Three" did a good job of
working with government to crush the small business that Tucker had in competition with
them.  In this light, the federal government is more of a servant of capitalism than its
master.