“The Falcon Heavy is an absurdly low-cost heavy lift rocket”
“The bottom line is that the Falcon Heavy is a more powerful rocket than the Delta IV Heavy, and by various measures the latter will probably soon cost the US government about five times as much. Put another way, the Department of Defense may have to pay half a billion dollars more for a single launch of certain military satellites on the Delta IV Heavy versus the Falcon Heavy.”
The actual reality is that the competitors of SpaceX are the ones getting subsidies, by getting awarded contracts when they are not the actual lowest-cost providers.
In the overall bigger picture with any and all of these, are we going to sell or give up the old house we already could not afford when we get done paying for the new one? the new one we also still cannot afford? Then pay those who we bought it from to live in it too?