Comment by joe_mamba
3 hours ago
>Tesla got a shitload of government funding, including a 465 million dollar loan
How much money, grants, tax-breaks, favorable loans and regulation, etc did the German, French, Italian car companies get from their local governments?
> But that doesn't mean the US government isn't willing to help things along, at least for those well connected.
As if Schroeder, Merkel, Scholz, etc didn't roll over backwards for their private industry political backers. The CEOs of VW, BMW and Daimler had those guys on speed dial.
Please, let's not pretend only the US government is helping its giants and the Europeans never.
They didn't claim that Germany doesn't give money to companies. The claim was that Germany doesn't want to give money to start-ups.