You are technically correct. But don't you think the US government is also spending money on paying for way more destructive and pointless companies? Whatever he's done to lobby to the government is nothing compared to what Big Oil, Big Food, Big Tech .etc has done to lobby to the government. Cars that dont spew toxic shit everytime it drives? I think that one of the better things the US goverment has funded on.

He's a contractor to NASA and DARPA, the stuff he's being paid with tax money to do is 1000x better than the money the government paid to Lockheed Martin just as an example.

I don't like the conservative mindset when it comes to technological advancements, because we can't keep doing things the way we are doing now, the older generation may die off when it's time to pay the environmental price of cutting trees and burning toxic gasolines to power the economy, but my generation sure as hell will have to foot the bill.

Elon Musk may be the best thing to happen in the 21st Century. And the typical American public is doing everything they can to fuck him up.