Ron Inchausti

You are a charlatan. Tesla did receive a $465 million loan in January 2010 from the Department of Energy (DOE). But what you fail to mention is that they repaid the FULL principal plus interest 9 years early in 2013, making Tesla the only U.S. auto manufacturer to repay such a loan in full. As for SpaceX, NASA gave SpaceX and Boeing $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively in “competing fixed-price contracts.” NASA needed spacecraft to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). Instead of having the government build it, NASA hired two private companies to. SpaceX delivered a certified system, but Boeing still hasn’t. Buying a service from the private sector is not welfare, and a repaid government loan is most certainly not a handout. Try again, squirt box.