When \~80% of your funding comes from tax dollars, calling yourself a "private"company is more than a little disingenuous.

Beyond that both Tesla and Skylink owe much of their early funding and / or ongoing revenue to government subsidies and contracts.

Shifting money between the three of them - when around 70% of that money comes from the taxes paid by American citizens - and then calling it "private funding" and disursing it to investors is intelectually the same as money lundering even if meets the curently laughable American standard of legal.

It's not even remotely the same as a company like GM - who's revenue is about 1% from American tax payers moving money around.

When your business model is "generate about 80% of our revenue from government fuding, shift that revenue to a sister company who ALSO generates more than 50% of it's revenue from American taxpayers, call it 'private investing' and then give those dollars to private entities as dividends" I don't really give a fuck if you've actually been nationalized - most of the money you earn and spend is MY tax money and I want it spent wisely, not shifted around between bank accounts so it meets the legal definition of "investent" so you can pass it out to your friends.

If I wanted to cut a check to rich people, I'd cut them a direct check. I don't need a fucking middle man pretending to give me something so he can skim off the top.

I know you won't read all of that and, even if you do, you'll find a way to explain why it's okay for Elon Musk to take my tax dollars, shift it from one bank account to another, and then give it to himself.

I don't give a fuck - save your breath.