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      6 days ago

      Looks like state subsidies, not federal?

      On a smaller scale, SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, cut a deal for about $20 million in economic development subsidies from Texas to construct a launch facility there.

      Included in the local subsidies is a 15-year property tax break from the local school district worth $3.1 million to SpaceX. O

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      6 days ago

      @IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world

      The article linked in the post I’m replying to, while from 2015, details $5.9 billion of subsidies that no-one I know approved in forms including tax breaks, century long $1 leasing deal in New York, rebates, and gifted sellable carbon credits.

      This is separate to the $5.5 billion in SpaceTwitter contracts.

      Both numbers, have, I’m sure I don’t need to check any data sets to see have gone up in the 10 years since.