Originally Posted by
hummingbear
Come up w/ enough nebulous “savings” to provide justification for the massive deficit producing tax cuts that are coming for the super wealthy. Also, to dismantle government agencies responsible for oversight (ie, “interference”) of Elon & his buddies’ companies or constitutional checks on executive power. Other than that, just to publicly kiss Dear Leader’s @$$ enough to keep one’s position in government.
I only take issue with the idea that it’s at all a secret.
this is the crux of the matter that’s so obvious. Do you really think Elon Musk has been up at night thinking “man these hard working Americans. They’re plumbers, electricians, airline pilots. They’re paying taxes, and they’re getting screwed by government waste!”. The dude is worth 100+ billion dollars. He lives in an entire different universe than you. We’re ants scrambling around the anthill facing down a construction project. Nothing.
What does Elon Musk hate the most? He hates the fact that sometimes a GS-13 making 70k a year with the FAA/EPA etc. shows up on his Space X facility with the sheriff behind him telling him he can’t launch his rocket today because some migratory Texas Egrets might by nesting nearby or an Allegiant flight is flying from Brownsville to Cleveland.
“THE NERVE. I’M Elon Musk. I’m single-handedly taking humanity to MARS. Who are these nothings telling me I can’t do _____. I have the vision.”
The goal is to dismantle any kind of federal government oversight into all these projects that people like Musk should just be allowed to do. How they want. When they want to do it. No matter what, with no pencil pushing bureaucrats to interfere.
the goal is to burn down the entire system. I’ve argued before that FINE. Medicaid/medicare/SS, which are the bulk of federal spending maybe *should* be left to the states. I’ll pay for my blue state social safety net with a high state income tax.
BUT…I promise you no republican politicians in Mississippi or Alabama is going to vote to cut those programs that me, in a blue state pay for. I subsidize the 30% of people on Medicaid in Mississippi and get nothing out of it. They are going to blow up the deficit later this year to lower taxes for corporations (not you), and keep the social safety net. I promise you this.
just stop being so naive thinking that Elon Musk of all people cares about your tax dollars.