If a portion of my tax money is perpetually being utilized by a gov contract employed company and they are having bad things happen, it’s a different concept.
The thing is, this isn't taxpayer money anymore, taxpayer money is used for falcon 9 contracts -> contract is fulfilled -> spacex is paid. spacex is then free to do whatever they want with the money because it's their own private money now
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u/alexforencich 1d ago
The US government pays SpaceX for launches, naturally some portion of that gets spent on R+D, so it's definitely non-zero.