Hate to break it to you, Mike. But it is our money. #TaxTheRich

@EdMarkey Context matters. You will note that many of these contracts span years when @TheDemocrats were in power, beginning under Obama and continuing through Biden. Please stop deliberately misleading people with your lies and innuendo. Try to be honest.

This is a ridiculous take. The government was pushing a green energy, environment friendly initiative and Tesla was the only company pushing to make EVs. That was the only way they were going to make electric vehicles the new automotive staple. Which was the forefront of the green energy push. NASA was also blowing through cash like a siv. SpaceX’s ideas were so advanced and cheap comparatively, that NASA and the U.S government needed SPaceX’s services to advance the U.S space exploration & satellite growth of the country. His companies aligned with the U.S goals. Micron, intel, Amazon, Alcoa, Cheniere, GM, Texas Instruments, Boeing, Ford, Disney… I can go on and on have received BILLIONS of dollars from the government. The government has and will always help companies that help the governments own agenda. To say he’s only a trillionaire because the government is nonsense. He is a trillonaire because he choose to take stock ownership in the companies either than high salary betting on himself and the companies he was building. Government funding helped as it does for all companies making good strides for America. But to sit around and claim his success is U.S tax payer funded is far from the truth. You should be ashamed of yourself this is just a smear campaign.

@EdMarkey Ed's a liar. I pay Elon every month for my X account and for my Star Link.

@EdMarkey @MtRushmore2016 So….you’re opposed to government subsidies, @SenMarkey? Good to know. BTW: Elon pays about $11 billion x year in federal taxes on income, and his employees combined pay more than that.

@EdMarkey Taking money from the people and giving it to the government is *virtually* the most ineffective way of solving any problem.. unless you're goal is to build roads, settle interstate disputes, or, as the general said, to "kill people and break things."

Hate to break it to you, Malarkey Markey - but it's not 'our money.' You've been leeching off the taxpayer teat since 1976 (50+ years of zero private-sector value created, net worth barely scraping millionaire status from government paychecks and pensions). Elon built reusable rockets that slashed launch costs, saved NASA tens of billions, and delivered actual results while you cosplay as a Green New Deal warrior. SpaceX wins competitive contracts for services rendered - not handouts. Your 'our money' Marxist grift is just envy with extra steps. Touch grass, Eddie. Or better yet, try building something instead of taxing it.

@EdMarkey You are playing loose with facts. Yes, SpaceX has lota of government contracts. Why? Because they charge LESS and deliver MORE to the taxpayer than their rivals. So, if anything, we owe him more money.

@EdMarkey So is this, Ed. At least Elon used his money to create something. Nancy and Paul Pelosi used it for their own wealth. x.com/Milajoy/status…

@EdMarkey SpaceX provided services for far less than any other bidder to be eligible for those contracts. They did something cheaper for government than anyone else was willing or able to.

@EdMarkey I must have missed the part where you developed electric cars, rockets to take people to the ISS and and the satellites you developed into orbit. Did you develop and deploy a world wide system for satellite internet? When did you do all this?

@EdMarkey Mr. "Malarkey" 2-5% came from government "help" , yes he has government contracts, so do many American businesses. I see your alter ego is displaying extreme jealousy.

@EdMarkey What's your plan Ed? What do you want to do? Be specific. Tax X from Elon, then do what with it specifically?

@EdMarkey Lil Marxist dude, no. It's his money. If you want to promote Communism and its ideals, defect to Cuba

You're full of s**t. Both Tesla and SpaceX received grants, Low interest loans and tax credits. Almost all of Spcex's ~$24B came from NASA, DoD, and Spaceforce. It was consensual and benefited both. They wanted SpaceX to succeed and they helped make it happen. Saying SpaceX's profits belong to the government is gutterspeak ridiculous and is patently false.

@EdMarkey It’s not your money you old ass dinosaur who should be picking curtains out for your senior living facility. Resign already after 50 years of nothing to show for it except $40 trillion dollars in US debt.

@EdMarkey It is time for old fossil fools like you to retire! That would help make America Great Again!

@EdMarkey Musk enters into contracts for services - like Bill Gates - but you're silent on him. How many government agencies use Microsoft? I'll answer - every single Federal, State, and Municipal agency in this country. Why aren't you railing on Gates? He's worth at least $100 Billion.

@EdMarkey Lol. Because he has contracts with the government?? To do something they've never done? Your kleptomania will be kept at bay by the same ethos that kicked off the Boston Tea Party and pushed back the redcoats in Lexington.

@EdMarkey Elon is getting paid for WORK he is doing for the Federal Government. I understand that WORK is a strange concept to you and your fellow travelers. Try it sometime - you would be amazed where you wind up...

@EdMarkey Hey @grok I know that his companies make money from taxpayer money (saving NASA 10x per launch, etc.), but, if Ed’s point is that taxpayers have a right to take back money paid into taxes from the taxpayer funded programs they dislike, is that reasonable?

@EdMarkey @nurawriter And the $180,000 a year that WE THE TAXPAYERS pay YOU, Markey, is OUR money and I want it returned to the people with INTEREST!

AHHH THERE IT IS!!! You just admitted for all to see that you and your ilk aka @TheDemocrats , think that OUR money is the governments' money--YOUR MONEY. THIS IS THE STRONGEST REASON WHY WE MUST STOP INCOME TAX. These leeches think our TAX DOLLARS are theirs to line their pockets with and throw into their fraudulent NGO's and other institutions that are all scams to fleece us as Nick Shirley and now many others have found, and THIS DOJ is going after and indicting. Maybe they need to pay you a visit!! @DAGToddBlanche

No, it is not "our" money. Has the federal government ben buying Teslas for the USPS? Yes, the government pays SpaceX for some of its services, but the government receives those services and then the money is no longer the government's money. It becomes SpaceX's money after the deal has been made.

@EdMarkey Mike is right! Elon’s hard earned money is not yours or the tax payers. He has worked his a$$ off for all of it. You might try working 1/10 as hard as Elon, then give away your own money. @BasedMikeLee @elonmusk

@EdMarkey Traitorous communists like you need to be prosecuted and locked in prison for the remainder of your evil life.

@EdMarkey I hate to break it to you; this guy is creating technology that the government never could; piss off Ed.

@EdMarkey Hate to break it to you, Ed. But it is ALL Elon's money! You can't get your greedy paws on it!

@EdMarkey Bullshit… I bought shares in Tesla and now SpaceX…. You did not provide the money for me to buy the stocks

Hate to break it to you, Ed, but Elon’s businesses have done more for this country and its citizens than American politicians EVER have. Political hacks see a successful entrepreneur and immediately start twitching and scratching their arms. Their addiction to stealing other people’s money has been the motivation to defrauding multiples of Elon’s worth, FOR DECADES. Everyone sees it, and if that’s not enough, go look at the national deficit and please explain again why ANY American owes this politicians any more money.

@EdMarkey It is not your money fstick.. He got the money for providing a service, You would do well to emulate him.. #CapitolPunishment4Traitors

@EdMarkey Typical bunch of Malarkey. You Democrats are incorrigible.

@EdMarkey Says Ed Marxist? 🤔 @elonmusk

My money is not your money. You did not pay your own way through college and law school, working late nights so I could eat. I took a huge risk on private loans, paid them off in full, got a job and then busted my tail for two decades to get where I am at. You have earned none of my money. It’s not yours. Taking it is theft. You are nothing but a thief who destroys while others earn and create. You are detestable.

@EdMarkey Markey, why lie about something so easily verified?

The Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008 created the $7500 tax credit or electric vehicles that led to Elon fast growth in wealth. The people who voted for it: Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Dick Durbin (D-IL) Patty Murray (D-WA) Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Barrack Obama Hillary Clinton