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RE: In Defense of Elon Musk's Subsidies

in #tesla8 years ago (edited)

Are we mad that somebody took our money, or that somebody accepted our money? If we’re mad that our money was taken, Musk is not the enemy...

Both. It takes two.

Actually, it takes a couple hundred million to fork over that money without a serious fight. Anyone who is paying taxes without putting up any kind of resistance is also part of the problem.

That said, I think Elon Musk is putting the stolen money to reasonably good use. If he is siphoning out funds in a way that results in government losing power vis-a-vis the rest of us, then I won't put him at the top of my list of bad guys.

Just closer to the bottom.

The existence of other subsidies is entirely irrelevant to the question. Just because people are getting away with murder doesn't mean we excuse one of them in particular for killing people we don't like.

Finally, subsidies are a tiny crumb in the US federal budget. The largest share goes to the military-industrial complex and is used to maintain the de facto global empire.

That's where the anger, err constructive action, needs to be focused. However, while there is a war on, that's also the hardest place to make an impact.

This is why I think those of us who are anarchists just need to focus on building the new society and not worry too much about rearranging the nooses on the state's gallows.