No. If Tesla (and the other companies mentioned) were investing all of this money into the business, then it would not be showing up as profits. Company taxes are not like individual taxes where only income is considered, and spending (mostly) disregarded.
Depending on which line on the income statement this is about, it is either money that could be sent to shareholders as dividends or buybacks, or money going into the cash reserves of the company.
And you are pushing a lot of opinion on the "unreasonably inefficient way". Governments are often very efficient spenders when you look at outcomes, often making private industries look awful. Medicare is a great example. It has a expense ratio of about %1.3, whereas the estimate for the Medicare Advantage plans (where they get to play games about who they let in) is that most of those private companies have an expense ratio of about %17. Private insurers are generally a bit better, usually at about %8.
To put more of a point on this, in the Affordable Care Act it was felt necessary to put a cap on the expense ratio of private insurers at %20 (%15 for large providers). That right there defines the "unreasonably inefficient way" we should be talking about.
I am not arguing that there is no waste in government, that would be silly. But the notion that government spending is generally a waste is not supported by the facts, and is more of a religious statement.
Depending on which line on the income statement this is about, it is either money that could be sent to shareholders as dividends or buybacks, or money going into the cash reserves of the company.
And you are pushing a lot of opinion on the "unreasonably inefficient way". Governments are often very efficient spenders when you look at outcomes, often making private industries look awful. Medicare is a great example. It has a expense ratio of about %1.3, whereas the estimate for the Medicare Advantage plans (where they get to play games about who they let in) is that most of those private companies have an expense ratio of about %17. Private insurers are generally a bit better, usually at about %8.
To put more of a point on this, in the Affordable Care Act it was felt necessary to put a cap on the expense ratio of private insurers at %20 (%15 for large providers). That right there defines the "unreasonably inefficient way" we should be talking about.
I am not arguing that there is no waste in government, that would be silly. But the notion that government spending is generally a waste is not supported by the facts, and is more of a religious statement.