Thank you for not falling into the "Conservatives hate science" trap.
I can't speak for other people, but my personal issue with Musk's ventures are how much money he funnels from the government.
I can't speak for other people, but my personal issue with Musk's ventures are how much money he funnels from the government.
For its launch capability, the US government should:
- buy on the open market at the lowest available price. Currently this turns out to be Russia.
- buy on the US market at the lowest available price. This may be SpaceX although other contenders are mentioned in the article
- build its own rocket systems from scratch inside government agencies
- just pay Boeing/Lockheed like they've always done
- just give up on space
(basically, if you think Musk funnels a lot of money from the US government, you should check out the rest of the aerospace industry...)
So given that government money spent towards space should be spent fairly and in support of a policy that maintains multiple competitors, these criticisms are a mix of 1) A warranted and necessary critical thought process, 2) likely influenced and supported by some good-old-boy network/industry support for ULA, and 3) opportunistic politics cashing in on a shallow opportunity to get back at a couple of Trump's adversaries like McCain and Musk.
okay so they still spend it on space stuff, but at least not directly.
Would they complain if the government sent money to a privatized firefighting business instead of having firefighting be part of the government?
I believe they would (probably not as bitterly) but the second half of this, is that there is a face to this business (Musk).
Elon Musks's businesses all tend to get quite a fair bit of subsidies, which is why i think Ron Paul talks about "Cronie Capitalism"
So all those Military Industry is still paid for by the TAX PAYER?! Makes no logical sense.
So since the Government is paying it must be a Government Agency that runs it? Your talking double talk aka hypocrisy. Privatization is 100% taking work monopolized by the Government and putting them out to a private identity that can do it cheaper through the free market system.
I don't know why you are so angry or arrogant, but this is the first semi-lucid response you have given.
Wrong, but semi lucid.
This seems to be what we are arguing about here, and well there's no two sides to this debate. You are wrong.
If you don't want private enterprise to get money from the government, you need to argue one of the following:
* Government should develop it's own aerospace and military industry without private sector.
* Government should stop space research and military should stop launching spy satellites.
The EV tax credit is not specific to Tesla, it's available to purchasers of EV's or partial EV's from all manufacturers.
SpaceX has saved the US $millions by unseating a fat incumbent in ULA. The savings could stretch into $billions soon and will grow larger if reusable rockets get certified for national security launches.