GOP lawmakers waste little time trying to write Elon Musk's priorities into law
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The California Coastal Commission seemed to be weaponizing and politicizing its approval. Approval to launch a rocket shouldn't be granted or denied based on if you agree politically with the CEO of the applying company. In the article it even says the Governor of California agreed with Elon.
> Republicans want to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases
Well sure, a lot of Republicans have _always_ disliked this tho. I got an EV and loved it but I can see how people that might be struggling find it unfair considering how expensive EVs are in the first place.
> Republicans also want to extend the 2017 tax plan that Trump signed
Extending republican policies is something republicans do, yes.
These really just sound like a bunch of things they were going to do anyways.
> The measures aimed at pleasing Musk aren’t all financially based. Some are personal. Trump has nominated Ken Howery, Musk’s longtime friend and occasional houseguest, who helped Musk lead PayPal years ago, to become ambassador to Denmark, where Howery’s prime mission would be negotiating a deal to buy Greenland — a pet project of Trump’s. Howery was ambassador to Sweden during Trump’s first term.
This, at the end of the article, is ironically probably the strongest example the author has but he chooses to add it at the very end.
It sounds a bit like nepotism. What qualifications does Howery have to be an ambassador? I guess he was before, in 2017.
> How is it not a massive conflict of interest to put people who sell hundreds of millions of dollars of products directly to the government in charge of reducing government spending?
This is repost of mine, less the comments that got me downvoted. :-)~
Dash is a good read.
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