Did you know your taxes are paying for those Tesla luxury cars? ( conspiracy )

submitted by ReddittRefugee

. . . and look what happens when a government decides to get rid of the taxpayer subsidies that allow someone to pick up a luxurious Tesla for $70,000, when its real cost is $120,000

In 2015 Tesla Motors sold 2,738 subsidized cars in Denmark. When the subsidies were removed in 2016 they sold 176 cars, LOL.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-11/its-confirmed-without-government-subsidies-tesla-sales-implode

ReddittRefugee

Yeah, corn farmers get $12 per acre of corn they grow.

Corn syrup couldn't compete on price with sugar cane and sugar beet without those subsidies. So everybody pays for corn syrup with their taxes, so that senators and congressmen in Iowa and Nebraska can get reelected !

I want to see both the Tesla subsidy and the corn subsidy gone.

iamrage

I knew about it which is why i laughed hard when Musk started bitching and moaning at Trump bailing on the Paris agreement

GreatWhiteNorth

Yes I did know that. Tesla has a great scam going on.

Spy_Banking

Lol. I love how people can make Tesla look like a failure, able to ignore the massive expansion and presold inventory. Thank goodness it's not being run those people.

pitenius

Massive expansion and yet no profit? Ever heard of Michael Milken? Presold anything? Are you familiar with vaporware? Have you made the mistake of buying a pre-released game? There's room for disagreement, but loling over it ... no.

WhiteRonin

So you are saying the government gave Microsoft $150 million to buy some code from Apple?

Wait! You're saying the government has been funding Balmer and Gates! Along with squirrel-tards at Google.

What did the fund Apple for????

stillinit

I don't trust Tesla or any company or agency with complete control of my vehicle.

ReddittRefugee

I don't trust Tesla or any company or agency with complete control of my vehicle.

LOL, a bunch of drivers found out the hard way that you're right:

http://autoweek.com/article/autonomous-cars/tesla-autopilot-dangerously-defective-lawsuit-claims

http://fortune.com/2017/04/20/tesla-lawsuit-autopilot/

Cock_Slap

i keep going back in years now. 2020 and ill be driving a model T

Tancred

Apple? Why?

Tancred

Well yeah, the Tesla S is a luxury car for millionaires (and people crazy enough to get a car they can barely afford).

Isn't it kinda surprising that it got so many subsidies in the first place?
I guess these subsidies were in place before Tesla came along and just weren't used much since hardly anyone was buying electric cars.

voats4goats

I believe in Denmark they also had free charging stations, parking, and use of the HOV lanes.

PlebeianCuck

Fuck Elon the thief

Spy_Banking

Yeah screw him for paying pack the government energy dept. loan early, and for pushing the car industry into electrification. What a thief. A theif I tell you! Now get off my lawn!

PlebeianCuck

Did you ignore the article?

For your simple brain he's taking far more than a loan... every car sold , half that cars cost is being paid by the tax payer. When subsides are ended few cars sell.

PlebeianCuck

Why does there have to be one or the other? shill much? Muh cornsirups

therealkrispy

I think the point he's making is that crash resistant cars with no emissions built in America and easy to maintain are a 'better waste' of American taxpayer dollars than unhealthy food additives, but it's a bit of a moot point. The government shouldn't subsidize anything, nor should it be in the business of educating children, nation building, overtaxation, economic planning through regulation (a Soviet principle) or funding for the arts, sciences or really anything else that costs money and isn't inside the primary directives of the DOJ, Congress, the DOD and the fucking US Mint. Maybe the highway system and the postal service, the latter of which is actually profitable. Fuck all subsides, fuck taxation. This country's federal government should be capable of running itself on nothing but import tariffs and the spoils of war.