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plutus
17y ago
My problem is that taxpayers have the most at risk with this company, but get none of the upside. There is a huge difference between government funding for basic research, and government funding to bring a privately owned product to market.
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plutus
17y ago
The U.S. government provided a $465 million loan to a tiny money-losing startup and got no equity in return. Now Tesla insiders are leveraging that taxpayer loan to IPO. Is this free enterprise or just corruption?