Tesla's Cheap 94-Mile Model 3 Has Cost Canadian Taxpayers $115m

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How much does one non-EV on the road cost Canadians §taxpayers or not)?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/cost-to-end-climate-chang...

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/campaign...

So for a cost of $3.19 per man woman and child in Canada, there are 23,000 more electric cars on the road.

And Elon can leverage this subsidiary to make us a space faring nation.

And end mining on earth as we know it by corralling asteroids.

I never get the criticism leveled at Telsa for selling electric cars.

Mussolini said fascism should rightfully be called corporatism because it is the marriage of the corporation and the state. If Elon wants to do those things as a capitalist, he can fund them without public money. Since corporations are married to the state, he (and many others) get that public funding without any votes or public oversight of how it is used. That's not democracy.

I would disagree and say it's the governments problem for giving him the money.

Alternatively, I would say that if the government DIDN'T give out our money, I'm not so sure Elon wouldn't stop be atop the heap of battery companies.

I read recently that Tesla would be out of business if it weren't for the tax credits and public money they received. That's not much of a compliment to one's business skills.

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