SpaceX wouldn't exist without US government funding. "...NASA awarded the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract to SpaceX in December (2008), thus financially saving the company." Give the bureaucrats some credit.

Er, doesn't NASA pay SpaceX for it's services? And where does NASA's funding come from again?

assuming you're in the US, you pay taxes to the government, the government pays SpaceX to launch things, and SpaceX pays Twitter for advertising. Yay!