[mkirklions]

Elon taking advantage of the government?

Say it aint so!

I dont think he can stay around without exploiting crony capitalism, his businesses have failed.

EDIT: Was forced out of paypal, spaceX is reliant on taxes, Tesla isnt profitable, SolarCity wasnt profitable and was bought by tesla(which outrages anyone who knows anything about corruption and stock ownership) and Boring is reliant on taxes.

[TotempaaltJ]

> spaceX is reliant on taxes

How is that an argument? There's plenty of companies that service only governments, and as such are entirely reliant on taxes. Sounds like a perfectly real source of profit.

> Boring is reliant on taxes.

TBC is self-funded and has been all this time. This is literally the first commercial thing TBC is building, and even this they're financing themselves. So this is simply untrue.

> Tesla isnt profitable

I'll give you this. I'm curious if he'll be able to make it profitable like he's promising now.

[nickik]

SpaceX is not reliant on taxes. That is a simple lie.

[mkirklions]

Bold words for a private company that lives off NASA.

[nickik]

Again. That is simply false. The waste majority of their flights are not for the government and they do not depend on the government contracts to keep them going.

Also they are offering their services to NASA cheaper then all competition (domestic and global) by as much as 50%. NASA itself admitted that they can not do it cheaper then commercial partners.

So what you problem?