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funny but make no mistake, the entire purpose of doge is to find funds to divert to rich people
The money is already diverted. That’s what the tax cuts were in 2017.
This is just a way to upset various government agencies that might otherwise not be ok with law being upended to accomplish the goal of eliminating services our elected government has mandated.
The entire legislative branch is broken now.
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it’s a demonstration of how democracy is broken. It all depends on everyone to play nicely. You can cheat but if you’re caught you bow out gracefully. The checks and balances are all based on one part of the government pointing saying “we see what you did, you’re out.” But what happens when one side has no shame. What happens when they have no empathy for others?
Congress controls funding and it is explicitly not the President’s role. He is now circumventing the laws to get his agenda done without the support of Congress which should trigger an impeachment. Of course Congress is either already in his pocket or is too impotent to do anything so here we are.
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This.
The parasite class
“Why save billions, when we can save millions?”
FYI this’ll prob get removed because c/memes has a strict no political memes rule
!politicalmemes@lemmy.world is a better fit
Donald Trump’s dad made a lot of his money off of overcharging for FHA housing. Does that count?
Guarantee that’s not going to happen. In fact with all the savings from the other more critical services being defunded, Elon will have more money for his own projects.
GIMME ALL YOUR LUNCH MONEY, PUNK! DON’T YOU KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE STARVING WHO CAN’T BUY GROCERIES???
… Now to buy second dessert with this sudden windfall!
Yeah. But how do we get off earth?
Since they started, how much money in subsidies found its way directly to the American co-president anyway?
Co-president? Elon is the only president.
well, the one that hit the news recently is that bullshit $400m ‘armored tesla’ contract for state department. the one they ‘oopsed’ and went back to remove tesla by name from.
That whole thing sounds rather counterintuitive. Armor is supposed to protect the occupants of the vehicle, but Tesla’s crown jewel of armored* trucks has a track record of spontaneous system failures that put its occupants in direct harm.
*with glass windows and steel sheet metal that can’t stop a bullet.
Armoured tesla…
Was the cybertruck just a soft prototype of the TeslaTank© ?
Looks like that was initiated under the Biden administration?
The Tesla contract started in the Biden administration “to explore interest from private companies to produce armored electric vehicles,” a State Department spokesperson said on Thursday.
Tesla was the only company to express interest in the department’s request at the time.
Doesn’t matter. Musk must withdrawal his company from consideration due to conflict of interest.
He’s not elected. He couldn’t give a f about conflict of interest.
Telsa
I’m five drinks in and this is still what jumped out.
I read the first post, spotted nothing amiss, saw this, thought it was a correction, then noticed they were both the incorrect spelling
Which SpaceX subsidies are you referring to? Just the contracts they’re fulfilling for NASA and the DOD?
If that’s the case, which I suspect it is, we look really fucking dumb being so hyperbolic(or what would the word be here? I just woke up). Let’s not stoop to their level with nonsense like this, there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made.
The complete opposite is the case. Musk is lying through his teeth. The whole world sees it, just some folks still don’t want to accept it.
Nice try.
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
Musk is insane and lies when he opens his mouth. The whole operation runs on government dollars and tax breaks.
I was wondering the same thing. I wasn’t aware he got subsidies. The article only pinpoints $4.9B, but it’s an old article. Thanks for sharing.
Here’s me googling “Elon musk 18 billion government”:
Yes, it talks about spacex winning $17B in federal contracts from the US government. That’s not subsidies. The US government is a customer.
If we assume the 1B is the rest for Tesla, that’s in EV subsidies. It isn’t just Tesla that benefits from those. Any manufacturer that sells EVs does.
Yeah I just gave you a potential source for the meme but I guess if you really want to ride on his dick, he’sonly had 5 billion dollars in subsidies. And if you really want to be technical, that was as of 2015 before inflation. My apologies for stepping on your toes.
https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/elon-musk-rich-taxpayer-expense/
No need to be so combative. A shitty meme presenting falsehood does not help furthering the cause to tax the wealthy.
@IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world
The article linked in the post I’m replying to, while from 2015, details $5.9 billion of subsidies that no-one I know approved in forms including tax breaks, century long $1 leasing deal in New York, rebates, and gifted sellable carbon credits.
This is separate to the $5.5 billion in SpaceTwitter contracts.
Both numbers, have, I’m sure I don’t need to check any data sets to see have gone up in the 10 years since.
