Over the last 12 years, Elon Musk and Tesla have secured hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to help grow their business, while making numerous commitments to state and local governments that often failed to materialize.
We can moan about these many scams that the 'not-real-money' billionaires concoct to steal our tax dollars. Instead of funding the high-gain "concepts," how about we simply reward them WHEN THE WORK IS DONE and folks have actual JOBS that are sustainable & not just grift?
What I don’t understand how this cunning and sly person talks local governments and state governments into giving him what he gets. Has anybody registered how he makes these promises and nothing or the barest minimum comes to fruition? Is there money being paid under the table as bribes? How in the world does he get to do this over and over again? He’s a grifter just like his fat buddy trump. He’s a snake oil salesman.
It’s a feather in the cap for a politician to ‘bring in jobs’ and is a great way to get re-elected. Being hard nosed can make them look ‘anti business.’
But if people follow up, especially in the states where this is supposed to happen, they will find that most of it doesn’t happen. The outcry should be loud and huge. The reason these kinds of people like musk and trump keep getting away with what they’re doing is because no one stops them, they just go onto the next thing, they most definitely pay under-the-table bribes.
Sounds like a failure of due diligence. Musk is excellent with his hype but should not prevent a cold, sober, and independent analysis of his actual history.
Just another "high-level" fraudster.
Gosh! What a surprise!
Thank you for this concise report PI.
Honestly it's just depressing to see the scams they get away with
We can moan about these many scams that the 'not-real-money' billionaires concoct to steal our tax dollars. Instead of funding the high-gain "concepts," how about we simply reward them WHEN THE WORK IS DONE and folks have actual JOBS that are sustainable & not just grift?
Musk and his crimes. How do we end it?
Send Elon to Mars on one of his "rockets".
What I don’t understand how this cunning and sly person talks local governments and state governments into giving him what he gets. Has anybody registered how he makes these promises and nothing or the barest minimum comes to fruition? Is there money being paid under the table as bribes? How in the world does he get to do this over and over again? He’s a grifter just like his fat buddy trump. He’s a snake oil salesman.
It’s a feather in the cap for a politician to ‘bring in jobs’ and is a great way to get re-elected. Being hard nosed can make them look ‘anti business.’
But if people follow up, especially in the states where this is supposed to happen, they will find that most of it doesn’t happen. The outcry should be loud and huge. The reason these kinds of people like musk and trump keep getting away with what they’re doing is because no one stops them, they just go onto the next thing, they most definitely pay under-the-table bribes.
Sounds like a failure of due diligence. Musk is excellent with his hype but should not prevent a cold, sober, and independent analysis of his actual history.