Selling your car because you don’t like that the CEO donated to the political party in power? Grow up.
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Elon Musk Unmasked as Top Donor to House Republican PAC
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Honestly, the car/mission don't have much to do with politics, especially when you realize CEOs often donate in favor of their companies
A well publicized discount of $7500 expiring at the end of the year, is a good demand lever to generate strong demand for the high margin cars to generate the needed cash flow and hopefully GAAP profitability through the rest of 2018.
Losing the $7500 credit prematurely would have messed that up -- perhaps fatally.
I agree that pulling up the ladder behind them after they've fully milked the credit, and denying the benefits to others would be good for Tesla having more EV market share, but perhaps the EV market share overall would be smaller. Probably best to have the EV credit and extend it if possible as it properly price adjusts to reflect negative externalities of ICE
Have fun selling your Tesla, and buying an ICE and contributing to climate change
Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen donated far more than musk to the same PAC, are you going to use exclusively Macs now and dump windows?
This is the problem with politics. Its all or nothing for people, pure black/white. Just because someone supports a republican doesn't mean they support Trump. Republicans are anti-union and anti-tarrif, two things that would help Tesla. Think about that for a second.
Elon Musk’s politics are as enigmatic as his businesses
Turns out he gives basically the same amount to republicans as he does democrats.
Right, so they should hope they get rid of the 200k part or cancel it for next year when porsche and audi and a few other big players start selling theirs
SDRick
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Musk it more than an individual, he is a brand; and as a brand he needs to pay into the political machine to have access. But his brand is much more aligned with values opposite to that of the GOP, he needs to play nice just to keep them from attacking the brand. We all know about the constant bombardment of negative headlines from other well organized sources.
The pro publica listing also shows $34,000 donation from GM (vs. Musk's $38,900) but the GM's donation was spread out in 12 smaller donations (from $1K to $5K). Why?.
Businesses had been donating to both sides to survive since forever. A "green" business to survive in this political climate, they need to give much much more to the political wind that is trying hard to snuff them out.
The pro publica listing also shows $34,000 donation from GM (vs. Musk's $38,900) but the GM's donation was spread out in 12 smaller donations (from $1K to $5K). Why?.
Businesses had been donating to both sides to survive since forever. A "green" business to survive in this political climate, they need to give much much more to the political wind that is trying hard to snuff them out.
I like this one "There are 2 types of Republicans - millionaires and suckers. Check your bank statements to verify which you are."
Unmasked??
Wow. The difference between politics and WWF is smaller than I thought.
Same hysterical audience for both.
Wow. The difference between politics and WWF is smaller than I thought.
Same hysterical audience for both.
P90D
Member
It's $39K ... that's a dollar in the panhandler's baseball cap, and paid to both blue and red faces of the oligarchy ... this one $8M fund has the top 10 donors at a quarter million each ... what do the real rulers of the USA spend to buy political parties and politicians in campaign spending and lobbyists and writing their own legislation? The oil, gas, coal, military, pharma, healthcare, insurance industries .. .the corn industry ... even cow, pig and chicken farmers ... hundreds of millions ...
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Adm
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Well America, news flash! You have an openly corrupt political system where people/corporations can (attempt to) buy influence. No need to buy the politician that will vote in your interests anyway, your money needs to go to the politicians you can persuade to change sides.
Adm
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Sorry, my Renault Zoe is still stuck with 2015 software. Knowing Renault, that's not gonna change anytime soon...
Wrong Adm?
Wooloomooloo
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I feel the same way, I can’t stand the idea of my money supporting them. I’m sure some clarity will come to this soon enough.
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