Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said on a podcast that Democrats should lay the groundwork for nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink if they win the White House, according to PJ Media. "Defund Musk. I mean this," Reich told host Heather Lofthouse on The Coffee Klatch. "If we have a Democratic administration - and the Democrats ought to be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX. Nationalize it."
NEW: Robert Reich calls for the "defunding" of Elon Musk, calls for Democrats to go after Musk's companies.
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"Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX... It should be a public corporation."
Does he want Musk to drop another $50M on the... pic.twitter.com/0jiljf0CtG
His case rests on money and power. "It should be a public corporation," Reich said. "We should not ever have that kind of power in one person's hands, one private person's hands." He claimed that 75% of Musk's wealth depends on taxpayers who are buying Starlink systems for the Department of Defense, a figure none of the coverage checks.
The government's side of the ledger is large but smaller than that claim implies. The Benton Institute counted READ MORE AT SOURCE »
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