Also New York state subsidies (US$750M) and US Treasury grants (at least US$497.5M) plus tax credit incentives for SolarCity; carbon credits (US$517M), tax breaks and incentives (US$1.3B), US Department of Energy loans (US$465M), and 2020 pandemic stimulus payroll loans for Tesla; and US Air Force NSS contract (US$653M), NASA Commercial Crew (US$4.93B) and Commercial Resupply Services (~US$3B), NASA Lunar Landing contract (US$2.89B), and US$15M from the state of Texas in addition to all of the development funding and plus-ups. Cite. Not included are what Elon has charged for “free” Starlink services to Ukraine and for disaster relief efforts, and all of the at-cost (or less) access to NASA test, launch, and range facilities.
As a taxpayer, you are giving Elon plenty, and he has no reserve of taking government loans, subsidies, and playing the out of scope game to plus up the value of “Firm Fixed Price” contracts to fill his coffers.
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