• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.

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      4 months ago

      Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.

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        4 months ago

        “Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)

        “But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”

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      4 months ago

      As of 2020, all of his companies had received around 5 billion in subsidies, tax credits, and the like.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah that’s what we call corporate welfare. What exactly did that 5 billion buy anybody? All it did was make that fucking asshole richer.