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Old 04-22-2023, 07:11 PM
 
Location: 78745
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He's gonna be on Bill Maher's program next Friday. I'm really looking forward to watching that.
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Old 04-22-2023, 07:14 PM
 
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At least my tax dollars didn't pay for the fireworks
Elon Musk is speaking out against government subsidies. Here's a list of the billions of dollars his businesses have received
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon...ty-2021-12?amp

In April, NASA selected Musk's aerospace company SpaceX for a $2.89 billion contract to work toward landing "commercial" humans on the moon. Musk beat out Jeff Bezos's aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin for the contract, which gives NASA use of Musk's Starship spacecraft to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon. Musk's company has been developing the spacecraft with the intent of taking the first humans to Mars.
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Old 04-24-2023, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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A government contract is not a subsidy.
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Old 04-24-2023, 10:00 AM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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A government contract is not a subsidy.
You can call it what you want. Government contracts are funded with taxes. In the end, yes your taxes paid for this
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Old 04-24-2023, 11:38 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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You can call it what you want. Government contracts are funded with taxes. In the end, yes your taxes paid for this
Our whole country is funded by taxes! A subsidy implies a one-way deal - government gives money. A contract is two-way - you get money, but must in provide a product back to the government. There is a very significant difference.
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Old 04-24-2023, 12:57 PM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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Our whole country is funded by taxes! A subsidy implies a one-way deal - government gives money. A contract is two-way - you get money, but must in provide a product back to the government. There is a very significant difference.
However, to the poster that mentioned “atleast my tax dollars didn’t pay for it”, that’s false
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Old 04-24-2023, 01:05 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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However, to the poster that mentioned “atleast my tax dollars didn’t pay for it”, that’s false
True. But it is not a subsidy, which is the poster I was responding to .
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