So has he paid back the Five Billion dollars that us taxpayers gave him? With interest of course?
“So has he paid back the Five Billion dollars that us taxpayers gave him?”
Yes.
One year he personally wrote a check to the IRS for $2.5B. That was just one year.
For once the subsidies laws (if you don’t like them, take it up with your legislator - not Musk) worked as intended and had a net taxpayer benefit.
(I disapprove of such legislation as unconstitutional, but insofar as it nonetheless exists, it has worked well for this case.)
“Tesla Motors announced Wednesday that it has repaid a $465 million loan from the government nearly a decade before it was scheduled to do so.”
https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/22/autos/tesla-loan-repayment/index.html
“Still, there is a price, and that number is $55m for a seat on SpaceX’s Dragon crew capsule, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, compared to roughly $90m for a seat on Roscosmos’ Soyuz rocket. “
https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/10/russias_space_agency_spat/