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Let Them Eat Teslas

Posted by Soulskill on from the om-nom-nom dept.

theodp writes "If you're a bright kid who wants to prepare for the 21st century workforce (PDF) by studying engineering at Purdue, the government will help your parents pay the $100,000 or so tuition tab with a 7.9% interest loan (plus 4% fees) that's likely to be non-dischargeable in bankruptcy and paid back with after-tax money. If, on the other hand, you want to buy a tricked-out $100,000 Model S, Tesla has teamed up with the government, Wells Fargo, and U.S. Bank on what it calls a 'Revolutionary New Finance Product' that enables those who play the game right to avoid paying sales tax, get the government to pick up the first $15,000 (no down payment needed!), and also receive a 2.95% bankruptcy-dischargeable loan for the balance, the payments for which could be tax-deductible. Yep, 'Revolutionary' may be about right!"

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  1. Re:"free" ha? by fascismforthepeople · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Free"? As in: somebody else picks up the tab, even if that somebody never actually has gone to a university himself?

    And now roman_mir bring us more fascist hypocrisy. Roman, we all know that you went to the University of Toronto, which is one of the largest state-run universities in the western hemisphere. You benefited greatly from the taxpayers paying to fund your educational pursuits (even though you failed all your science courses, and never took economics, history, or math).

    But now, you are trying desperately to ensure that nobody else can claim the same benefit you pursued earlier. You want to make sure that others cannot access education, health care, housing, fair wages, clean air and water, reasonable living conditions, and legal protection unless they have sufficient stockpiles of pure gold to pay for those things with.

    You are, of course, trying to ensure that power is held only by the wealthy - even though you provide no explanation for why such people would give a shit about someone like you. You want to see that benefits are only for the wealthy. Your dream state of hyper-concentrated power is known as fascism, you want to bring fascism for the people.