Posted on 02/08/2018 5:04:29 PM PST by Simon Green
Since you can’t pay attention:
“The figure compiled by The Times comprises a variety of government incentives, including grants, tax breaks, factory construction, discounted loans and environmental credits that Tesla can sell. It also includes tax credits and rebates to buyers of solar panels and electric cars.”
LA Times of all places. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
And this outlines the rest of it, but you won’t read it. I’m not going to debate the obvious addressed in this article. It’s not innovation. I suppose you support wasting taxpayer dollars to go to Mars as well...
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/cut-elon-musks-government-subsidy-gravy-train-18671
I just don’t grasp how so many on FR are so utterly blinded with rage by the ignorant “Musk got money from the gov’t” (he didn’t - he was given a tax cut) that they can’t see the monumental achievement of building & launching a _reusable_ rocket capable of sending 64 tons to Mars.
I don’t know what could possibly satisfy these people. What could Musk do “right” such that they would stop condemning him? Usually such requests reveal that such people just won’t take “yes” for an answer - cognitive dissonance.
So how much of it was actual money given to Musk et al?
And why aren’t you equally - or justifiably more so - losing your freaking mind over subsidies of gasoline, milk, and other companies/industries receiving orders of magnitude more “subsidies” than this yahoo who is just doing publicity stunts (in the form of a quarter-million semi-luxury cars, dozens of commercial rocket launches including unheard-of dozens of vehicle recoveries, ... at what point are they no longer “publicity stunts”?)?
And have you spent more time screaming at your legislators than you have at strangers about the subjects?
When you reverse that cranial-sphincter problem you can think about lecturing me. Until then all I’m seeing is the ranting of a Musk groupie.
A business is not free enterprise or capitalist if the risk is leveraged upon taxpayers rather than investors bearing 100% of the burden and the government is subsidizing the players. Rationalize it however you like, you’re spouting hypocrisy here.
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