• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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      10 个月前

      Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.

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        10 个月前

        Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.

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          10 个月前

          “Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)

          “But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”

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        10 个月前

        As of 2020, all of his companies had received around 5 billion in subsidies, tax credits, and the like.

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          Yeah that’s what we call corporate welfare. What exactly did that 5 billion buy anybody? All it did was make that fucking asshole richer.