The history on Musk is California subsidized gis businesses completely in tye beginning then the federal government did it... Talk about corporate welfare..... now he badmouths programs to helps others... A recent Washington Post analysis found that Elon Musk's companies, including Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX, have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits over the past two decades.