Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants

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Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants
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Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.

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Trickle down economics should result in more jobs. In this case it didn't. The lesson is that not enough subsidy was given because people were fired instead of hired. Suggest they give Musk more money, that should get the desired result! /s

Trickle down economics should result in more jobs.

In the mythical land of conservative wish fulfillment, sure. In reality trickle down economics was always a lie to justify tax breaks for the wealthy.