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How US Taxpayers Helped Elon Musk Become the Richest Man on Earth

19 Oct 2024 | Abstracted from Common Dreams

Now it's time to tax it back to where much of it came from.

"...just-published Politico analysis, 'the single biggest beneficiary of U.S. government contracts.'

"Tesla, a shaky electric vehicle company when Musk bought it, only 'took off after receiving $465 million in subsidies from the Obama administration in 2010...America's wealthiest 400 billionaire families, between 2010 and 2018, 'paid an average of just 8.2 percent of their income...'"



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