• Decoy321@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, Musk can pay a little more taxes and then they could afford to hire more staff.

    • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Agreed on the taxes (there shouldn’t be billionaires), but to give SpaceX a bit of credit, they’re offering to help fund some of this:

      The company also believes that license applicants should be able to opt-in to help fund independent third-party technical support to assist the FAA surge in the near term

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      1 year ago

      I suspect he pays a significant amount of taxes that could easily pay for the entire faa program then some. Not a big fan of his but from that point a view alone, pretty sure he is covering the cost by a factor.