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funny but make no mistake, the entire purpose of doge is to find funds to divert to rich people
The money is already diverted. That’s what the tax cuts were in 2017.
This is just a way to upset various government agencies that might otherwise not be ok with law being upended to accomplish the goal of eliminating services our elected government has mandated.
The entire legislative branch is broken now.
Telsa
I’m five drinks in and this is still what jumped out.
I read the first post, spotted nothing amiss, saw this, thought it was a correction, then noticed they were both the incorrect spelling
The parasite class
Donald Trump’s dad made a lot of his money off of overcharging for FHA housing. Does that count?
Hey! He EARNED that Welfare UNLIKE those SINGLE MOMS working 3 JOBS!
Guarantee that’s not going to happen. In fact with all the savings from the other more critical services being defunded, Elon will have more money for his own projects.
Yeah. But how do we get off earth?
you don’t. there is no escape and no one is coming to save you just be a better person while ur alive
Cutting EV subsidies would lead to more gas cars, which isn’t good. Investing in public transit would be better, but encouraging EVs is also good.
I think everyone is good with EV subsidies, just not those for companies whose executives have conflicts of interests as they act as government officials overseeing the spending.
the subsidy thing is backwards.
most ev shouldn’t get subsidies. especially not the heavy tanks that do more damage to the infrastructure.
petrol-powered vehicles should be taxed more instead–a lot more. at purchase (or resale), at registration, every year at tag renewal, and at the pump. and be subject to lifetime emissions and safety inspections.
charge double or triple in fees for ownership and push gas prices to ~ $2 per litre like it is in parts of europe, then most everybody but the least-endowed will be buying battery electric vehicles. small, efficient ones.
The problem is that unlike Europe we don’t have a walkable country. You guys have cities that are less spread apart. I wish our cities were more community friendly infrastructure. My city is starting to put bike trails that are desperately needed since we are being run over while biking. There’s always a story with someone being hit.
I really wish I could get this across to the FuckCars people in countries other than the U.S.
I just moved from Terre Haute, Indiana in the U.S. to Blackburn in England. The fact that virtually everything you need is within a half-hour walk, most of it much less, cannot be overstated. It’s just not like that in the U.S. Terre Haute has something like 40% the population of Blackburn and driving from one end of town to another, and the shops are spread out all over town, takes 45 minutes.
If you guys really wanted cheap EVs, maybe not having 100% tariffs on Chinese EV’s would help. You can make an argument about not letting the Chinese government into the market, but as it currently stands the US government isn’t looking much better.
Sure, but that doesn’t change whether subsidies should be granted or not.
Since they started, how much money in subsidies found its way directly to the American co-president anyway?
Which SpaceX subsidies are you referring to? Just the contracts they’re fulfilling for NASA and the DOD?
Nice try.
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
Musk is insane and lies when he opens his mouth. The whole operation runs on government dollars and tax breaks.
Looks like state subsidies, not federal?
On a smaller scale, SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, cut a deal for about $20 million in economic development subsidies from Texas to construct a launch facility there.
Included in the local subsidies is a 15-year property tax break from the local school district worth $3.1 million to SpaceX. O
Nice try, stan
I was wondering the same thing. I wasn’t aware he got subsidies. The article only pinpoints $4.9B, but it’s an old article. Thanks for sharing.
Here’s me googling “Elon musk 18 billion government”:
@IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world
The article linked in the post I’m replying to, while from 2015, details $5.9 billion of subsidies that no-one I know approved in forms including tax breaks, century long $1 leasing deal in New York, rebates, and gifted sellable carbon credits.
This is separate to the $5.5 billion in SpaceTwitter contracts.
Both numbers, have, I’m sure I don’t need to check any data sets to see have gone up in the 10 years since.
