You need to be clear what kind of financial aid you're talking about. Is it research grants, or bailouts? The (semi) convincing reason for these massive bailou

You need to be clear what kind of financial aid you're talking about. Is it research grants, or bailouts? The (semi) convincing reason for these massive bailouts is to avert immediate crises that will affect huge numbers of people. This crisis atmosphere is the only reason such huge amounts of money can be rammed through with minimal deliberation. OTOH $400M is a lot of money for some kind of R&D grant. Tesla is a private company. $4M would be a different story. If we're throwing out $100's of M here and there in pure grants, then there are also many other deserving recipients. Who decides who should get those funds? I wouldn't put Tesla at the top of that list.