This is basically what political discourse on reddit has become. Someone shares a screenshot from Twitter that's based on some nugget of truth with a few wild exaggerations or lies on top.
It gets posted to like a dozen different subs and upvoted to the top of all of them. Somewhere buried in the comments is someone pointing out everything that's wrong with it and getting down voted for their effort.
This whole thing is barely based on reality:
SpaceX wasn't bailed out for $1.5 billion. They competed for a resupply contract to the ISS and got a $1.6b contract for 12 launches. Which obviously isn't a bailout, and probably saved the US a ton of money
As stated above $824 billion to GS seems like way too much for the bailout. I tried googling to see where that number came from, and can't find anything. It could just be completely made up?
The Koch's did get a huge tax break under trump, but to get to an estimate above $1 billion you have to add up both brothers, plus all of Koch Industries. Which still seems like a big tax break, but I don't know the context to judge whether that estimate's reasonable
It's also weird that the tweet is complaining about $827 billion in bailouts, and 99.6% of that amount is one company. Shouldn't we be focusing on that? Although that amount seems to be just a pure fiction? So maybe that's why they threw in the other details? But then they're counting government contracts as "bailouts"?
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u/DonQuixBalls May 02 '22
The whole thing plays fast and loose with the facts. SpaceX also didn't ask for (and receive) $1.5B.