No they are not. 

So you don’t want to be John Malcovich, you just want to ride along John Malcovich. 

That’s exactly why I take as much money from banks as I possibly can through every account signing bonus and credit card bonus offer they put out there. I wish I had kept track of how much I have gotten over the past decade or so, but I typically get over $1,500 a year easy.

Yet both will largely continue supporting both of them..

That’s how the rich stay rich. They use other people’s money. It’s even how they make money. Invest other people’s money and take a portion of the gains of zero of the losses... yet they get a favorable tax rate for the risk even though there is zero risk to them.

I mean, if the banks can just turn it into a big enough problem they’ll get tax money to pay for it!

You couldn’t buy Twitter stock after Musk bought it. He bought it all. It’s now his privately-owned company.

Technically yes, but not the way they intended. Or maybe it did work the way they intended, which would be the worst. “Fake it til the government bails you out!”

Looks like a great trick that will either stop working or only turn the panel 3/4 of the way in a couple of years.

Or to put another way, they don’t want to have to work harder to earn those spending dollars from customers. They just want it given to them immediately through tax breaks.

“The deal went through just as rates were going up, so the banks aren’t getting a bad return on the loans:”

Hope so for their sake, but that would be a dumb deal to sign for Musk!

I haven’t looked into that but wonder how it works. The only way I would see it as a loophole for me is if the lease agreement included a set price purchase option at the end of the lease with a set financing rate so there wouldn’t be any expensive surprises waiting for me when the lease is up.

Well since a huge chunk of his billions of personal wealth is tied up in TSLA stock, he should be if he wants to keep his billionaire status. 

I assume it’s costing them even more money now with interest rates higher. They could have reissued that debt capacity to other more recently for better interest rate returns, but are stuck taking the historically lower interest rate payments from Musk. So even though he’s making the agreed payments, the banks are…

Guess it was a “we’ll replace with Ac trucks as we nee more trucks” and hurried up and bought a bunch of non-AC trucks to delay as long as possible. But partly shame on the union for not making them commit to something more concrete and sooner.

GOP mantra: “if it ain’t working ,don’t fix it!”

That plan calls for sprinkling the waste over poor communities. 

Trucks with AC is supposed to be part of the big contract they renegotiated a couple years ago along with six figure top rate annual pay for drivers. 

You mean you actually have delivery drivers that knock on your door? I just assumed they don’t bother with that any more and throw it at your doorstep from as far away as they can manage.