Why don ' t you ever see the POTUS cruising in a drop top anymore ? It ' s so classy . <| sep |> Whoa , like , literally ? There are a lot of stuff that would be really hard to do without taxes . People always mention roads , bridges , ports , airports and dams could not be built without taxes , I say let a company build them and set a price for the use of the thing , just like toll roads , only it should be paid to private entities who had the vision to build the thing That ' s the requirement to be eligible for the tax breaks , so for the state it does matterAgain government could pay people to dig holes , but that doesn ' t mean that it would be a good way to allocate scarce resources like labor and brainpower , government planning to have a number of jobs created and rewarding companies who employ people with tax breaks is something out of Soviet Union Forbes US $ 11 . 3 billion , but another article stated it was around 6814 billionWow , he ' s the biggest welfare queen ever . and I thought that people who made 510 million dollars owning companies who won contracts with the military were welfare queens . like I said on a per capita basis NOBODY on this planet made more money than elon musk using corporate welfare , big government and taxpayers money Totally agree with defense spendingsOh good , by the way don ' t even let me begin with the F 35 s and all the other crap paid for by taxpayers while other countries understand that war has no place in the 21 st century as trade advantages everybody . talking about missing out on simple concepts .