No argument on Elon Musk using the "Art of the Deal" prowess getting government monies to finance his rocket, energy storage, transit and auto businesses. Many great American fortunes in post-WW2 America have been made because of government handouts or subsidies or tax breaks. We have billionaire real estate moguls who have gotten millions in tax breaks and government rent support for medium and low income housing. Many would be shocked to learn some even hold public office, have an (R) behind their names and call themselves "conservatives." Other fortunes have been made by supplying the US military, the FDA, the Forest Service and other government agencies by people who then fund the campaigns by people who run on shrinking government and controlling government spending. But not necessarily for the departments that buy their goods and make them good livings. Some here have praised Governor Rick Snyder for putting MI on track. Gov. Snyder shifted taxes from businesses to individuals. Those businesses from a tax shift. I call that a subsidy that benefitted private business. The same governor signed legislation that gave the SWITCH company that bought the former Steelcase Pyramid a tax break on all equipment for sales tax on those capital purchases of data handling devices like servers but giving municipalities the option of also waiving personal property tax levied against not only SWITCH, but all data centers. Our Pro-Business Governor and State Legislature have been very generous with tax breaks to business yet Pfizer ($50B in '17 profits) is negotiating for even more tax breaks from local government after MI has cut taxes on businesses and changed formulas reducing state funds to counties leaving those entities needing local taxes to cover the shortfalls caused by the new formulas. Just this week we saw MI DEQ C. Heidi Grether, a Snyder appointee (former lobbyist for BP Energy) give Nestle the go ahead to increase their fresh water extraction by 60% from 250 gallons per minute to 400 gym. That's 576,000 gallons of fresh water, what others and myself to be one of Michigan's greatest resources, to be shipped to MI and out of state. The water doesn't require additional treatment so it goes from well head to bottling to truck. Nestle will make millions on selling this resource. The required public comments were 75 in favor and 80,945 against the increase. The DEQ Director made this statement after granting the increase,"In full transparency, the majority of the public comments were in opposition of the permit," Grether added, "but most of them related to issues of public policy which are not, and should not be, part of an administrative permit decision." Get that last part? Public policy should not be part of an administrative permit. It appear the rot is corporate welfare for multi-nationals and wealthy individuals. And so it goes.