Spacehuman

He built a space ship. What have you done? Sit on your fat ass complaining on the internet?

penis_lord

What, for one tesla is just one of the companies to get those loans. And he paid it back EARLY.

Source - http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/05/23/tesla-pays-off-government-loan-nine-years-early/

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poopwillis

Government using the threat of violence to funnel tax money to their chosenites. It's fucking disgusting.

ihaveabulldoge

I don't hate this. Rather him take my tax dollars I am robbed of every year, than the assbags in the government

abnathapryde

I love how the article fails to account for the value of the 21,000 jobs that have been created by Space X, Tesla Motors, and SolarCity. Count me in for any programs that not only creates jobs but advance humanity in the areas of science and technology, the returns on this money will most likely be priceless in the long run.

poopwillis

Fuck that. Every one of those business loses shit-tons of money. How about not picking government favorites to run shit companies doing obviously wasteful things, backed by statist goons with guns?

Fuck all statists.

nokilli

How do you feel about Monsanto doing very much the same thing, and then laying intellectual claim to technologies paid for in large part by the taxpayers?

harrygibus

It might be an apt comparison if Musk didn't do the exact opposite with a lot of his patents by making them open. link He realizes that the patent system is broken and that technology advances greatest when it is shared.

nokilli

Good response.

I would still feel better if there were a more formal system in place seeing to it that taxpayers were treated more like shareholders. We shouldn't have to rely on the good intentions of those who receive public subsidy.

poopwillis

But these are abnath's favored sacred cows, so it's different!

lordgenome

Fine by me!

If you wanna go after tax money waste, go after the military industry