Elon Musk is just another corrupt CROOK. It doesn't look like ELON MUSK is a good and decent person, and on top of that he and his "PARTNER" named their baby, X Æ A-12 after a CIA spy plane. HOW NUTS IS THAT? Why can't these people EVER ACT LIKE SANE HUMAN BEINGS? I don't think Q likes him much either. Another CROOK stealing tax payer money.  POST 428 Why is EM provided BIG WW subsidies? No subsidies = ? Clown contribution in exchange for access code? Why relevant? Amazon Echo? Google Home? Clown contributions? Apple Face ID Tech? FB Face ID Tech? Catching on? Bombs Away. Q "Elon Musks's Taxpayer-Funded Gravy Train"   ARTICLE from DECEMBER 2018. "Tesla spends $1 million annually on Washington lobbyists. Its cars are financed by over $280 million in federal tax incentives, including a $7,500 federal tax break and millions more in state rebates and development fees. SpaceX has also received over $5 billion in government support. It has OVER PROMISED and UNDER DEVELOPED. SpaceX rockets, for example, are far less reliable than many of its competitors. This is outlined in reports from December 2017 and January 2018 in which the Department of Defense Inspector General and NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Council described a list of security concerns they have with SpaceX, among them 33 significant non-conformities. Bloomberg Business News reported in November about a Tesla solar factory for which the State of New York paid $750 million based on a commitment to create 1,500 jobs. The factory had been developed for another Musk-run company, SolarCity, which Tesla bought in 2016 in a $2.6 billion deal. SolarCity had been $2.9 billion in debt. Only a relative handful of jobs have been created, and New York officials are expressing dismay. Raymond Walter, a Republican in the New York State Assembly, says he is concerned that the state "has too many eggs in the Tesla basket, which doesn't seem like a very strong basket." John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a nonprofit focused on government accountability, says, "It's a complete hoo-ha! These mega-subsidy deals take place in COMPLETE SECRECY without scrutiny from the public. Bloomberg News declares that this is "...a familiar playbook for Musk, start with wild promises followed by product delays, production hell, shareholder anger and finally, hopefully, redemption." Things, however, may be even worse than they appear. Some are even speculating that Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla may be on their way to becoming the new Enron. Enron, the energy giant, employed approximately 20,000 people and claimed revenues of $111 billion at its peak by 2000. As it turned out, Enron used shady accounting practices to hide its losses and report profits which, in fact, did not exist. Andrew Fastow, the chief financial officer, created the scheme to falsify Enron's real financial status. In April 2001, the fraud began to unravel as analysts began to question Enron's numbers. In the end, Enron was found to have losses of $591 million and debt totaling $628 million. Stock prices declined from $90 in 2000 to less than one dollar when the scandal was exposed. Senior managers, who kept selling their stock while encouraging others to continue buying, were convicted of insider trading. In December 2001, the company declared bankruptcy. In the view of many, Elon Musk has been engaging in similar behavior. A Bloomberg report in November suggests that SpaceX may be less than honest with its numbers, giving a false illusion of profitability. According to Bloomberg , "While SpaceX is burning through cash, disclosures to potential lenders showed the company had positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of about $270 million for the 12 months through September, people with knowledge of the matter said. But that's because it included amounts that customers had prepaid and because it excluded costs related to non-core research and development...Without those adjustments, earnings were negative, they said.” Elon Musk and his companies have a very questionable record when it comes to truth and honesty. Overstating prices to qualify for higher state tax credits seems to fit a pattern. According to a recent report in The Oregonian/Oregon Live, "The state of Oregon has recovered $13 million it paid to Tesla for solar power projects, after an investigation conclude the company inflated prices to qualify for higher tax credits." https://mises.org/wire/elon-muskss-taxpayer-funded-gravy-train "Elon Musk and Grimes named their newborn baby after a short-lived CIA spy plane able to fly over 2,000 mph" "The tech billionaire Elon Musk and his partner, Grimes, a musician, named their newborn baby in part after the A-12 spy plane built for the CIA during the Cold War. Musk said the baby boy's name is X Æ A-12, and Grimes said on Twitter that the A-12 is representative of the predecessor to her and Musk's favorite aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird."