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Elizabeth Warren: Elon Musk ‘Didn’t Make It on His Own — He Got Huge Investments from the Government, from Taxpayers’
Breitbart ^ | 03/29/2022 | Trent Baker

Posted on 03/29/2022 9:39:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday continued her feud with tech giant Elon Musk.

Warren, who has called the Tesla founder and SpaceX CEO a “freeloader” because he did not pay taxes in 2018 nor 2020, argued on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Musk “didn’t make it on his own.” She noted Musk “got huge investments from the government” and “taxpayers.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: government; investments; musk; warren
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To: AnthonySoprano

LOL...the PERFECT example of tone-deaf!

BTW, whatever happened to that “Middle Class Task Force”? Did they declare victory and retire to the bar for drinks?


41 posted on 03/29/2022 10:03:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Sorry, I’m not a biologist.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If I was POTUS (LOL) the first thing I’d do is ask these billionaires to help in any way they can. I think you’d be surprised what would happen.
I do not think anything good can come from demonizing and taxing them dsproportionately.


42 posted on 03/29/2022 10:07:21 AM PDT by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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To: budj

“”Solyndra and others did not pay anything back.””

Biden should be asked about that every time he opens his mouth!! The public forgot all about it but not those of us who remember the promises made during the Recovery Act controversy...As I remember, Biden was put in charge of keeping tabs - making an accounting of all those funds! What a joke!


43 posted on 03/29/2022 10:08:49 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many people did he have on the payroll. People like Musk make the world go round.


44 posted on 03/29/2022 10:08:52 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Musk got a govt secured loan for Tesla.
Musk paid off the loan 9 years early.
Tesla has since been funded by 100% private money.
Musk is the largest taxpayer in the history of the USA, has created tens of thousands of jobs (that also pay taxes) and made America the world leader in electric vehicle manufacturing.

I’m not seeing a problem here. That loan guaranty was one of the best investments the government made in several decades. I guess they are so used to securing loans for their donors and lobbyists like Solyndra and Fisker, only for them to default (after 10% for the big guy) and leave taxpayers, investors and towns with the bill.


45 posted on 03/29/2022 10:09:17 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: ChicagoConservative27

True, but he also fired a rocket into space and returned it for reuse, saving the government billions every year.


46 posted on 03/29/2022 10:09:33 AM PDT by struggle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lyawatha lies again. I wonder how mush of their fortune was made doing business with China ... that also applies to all members of Congre$$.


47 posted on 03/29/2022 10:11:13 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hate Warren, but on that score (about Tesla really) she is correct.

I used to call Musk a miner - he mines the public treasuries for the subsidies without which Tesla would have folded long ago.


48 posted on 03/29/2022 10:11:28 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: budj

And how much are the tax credits every buyer of a Tesla gets??? And how many would but a Tesla without them?


49 posted on 03/29/2022 10:12:44 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Thank You Rush

I have always wondered who got the money doled out for Solyndra. Someone got that money and did something with it. Some of it went to start up the solar panel company , but not all of it. Was some invested in another company, bought a yacht or mansion, gambled away? Where did the money go?


50 posted on 03/29/2022 10:17:01 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Show me any politician who did differently.


51 posted on 03/29/2022 10:19:56 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s true

The problem is for her is Musk is another African American that’s walked off the left’s “plantation”


52 posted on 03/29/2022 10:20:24 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Says the fake Indian who took in a 4$00,000 salary for nothing. She’s been nothing but a political grifter her entire life.


53 posted on 03/29/2022 10:21:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is a YouTube channel called “Commonsense Sceptic” that has a lot of solid analysis about how most of Elon’s gains are illgotten. And it is not just about government subsidies.


54 posted on 03/29/2022 10:21:20 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

n·vest·ment
/inˈves(t)mənt/
Learn to pronounce
noun
plural noun: investments

1. the action or process of investing money for profit or material result.
“a debate over private investment in road-building”

means the gov did it for Return on Investment, not out of the goodness of it’s heart...


55 posted on 03/29/2022 10:23:03 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“You didn’t build that..someone ELSE built that”.

/sarc


56 posted on 03/29/2022 10:26:14 AM PDT by jstolzen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is classic liberlism. Keep lying even when you have been proven to be a liar again and again.

Why she picks fights with Musk is strange. He dismantles her every single time.


57 posted on 03/29/2022 10:33:45 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: budj

Tesla paid loans back EARLY

Tesla paid all interest due

Musk paid about 11 BILLION in taxes last year.

I have lost track of how many employees he signs paychecks for.

HOW MANY PAYROLL CHECKS DO YOU SIGN, LIZ???

ON THE FRONT-—NOT THE BACK.


58 posted on 03/29/2022 10:34:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Elizabeth Warrendidnt make it on her own. She got into Harvard by impersonating as an Indian.


59 posted on 03/29/2022 10:35:44 AM PDT by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How much wampum Princess Gray Beaver makum flipping teepee foreclosures?


60 posted on 03/29/2022 10:36:09 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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