EXTRAORDINARY! The sound barrier is at 768 MPH +/- depending on altitude. This would be fun if it were privatley funded and managed. But I am sure my tax dollars will somehow be used to vett this and eventually be wasted. California can't do this. It needs to be tried in some other country first. Innovation in America is expensive and all but dead.
Innovation is certainly under attack in this country but not dead yet. Musk’s Tesla’s benefit from tax breaks but for most people paying $70K-plus for a car, the small break is usually not a deciding factor.
SpaceX now sells launches to NASA, which is better than NASA flying its own rockets, and Musk’s rockets are innovative and less costly than NASA’s. The hope is SpaceX can live without NASA by selling launches.
And the hyperloop is innovative though whether it can be done without gov money, who knows? I bet that without government regulations it would have a better change.
Republicans, libertarians, and conservatives should reach out to people like Musk, though Musk is pretty liberal, to should them that they have more to gain from free markets than from Obama control freaks.