Do you also enjoy govt cronies who sup at the federal trough? Because that is Elin through and through
Absolutely not. But they're a necessary evil for progress. The railroad barons of the 19th century made big things happen, they opened the American West (while enriching themselves on the government teat). Same for ship builders, military industrial complex, space travel, etc. You think all these great builders were goody through and through? Nope. Thomas Edison was a crook. Nicolas Tesla tried to be a good guy and got no where. Sometimes people with big ideas go begging governments for a handout to make their big ideas happen (like Christopher Columbus seeking the New World but with other people's money). It is what it is.
If you do some research, I think you’ll find that close to 90% of subsidies are state and local.
https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/top-100-parents
And people used to complain about Trump getting subsidies:
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/magazine/the-expanding-empire-of-donald-trump.html?pagewanted=all
There’s the real issue. And this “genius” would be dumpster diving (or maybe bagging groceries) if he didn’t have the benefit of a huge government subsidy because our “betters” believe in the idiotic fantasy of electric cars.