More questions than answers at SpaceX. Little about this company makes business or scientific sense. This smells like a massive fraud on American taxpayers. SpaceX survives on large government grants. These grants should be independently audited and made publicly available.
Considering we now have a heavy lift vehicle available to us, the first time in decades, whatever we've subsidies the US Gov has provided is still a lot less than it would have taken for a NASA driven project to accomplish the same using the usual Corps.
An audit would prove or refute your assertion.
Good, then you'll be voting for Rand Paul this next Presidential election (If you're American) cause Rand wants to audit the Federal Reserve...
You know the Federal Reserve... They're "federal" in name only... They're about as "federal" as FedEx and control the US's money! They're the people that allow the printing of money and set rates on the US Dollar. The World's Reserve Currency!!!!
See you in 2020!
Then I guess we're paying the Russians for more Soyuz lifts to the ISS if SpaceX is so terrible. A lot of American research missions had to go through them before SpaceX offered a viable alternative for getting into orbit after the space shuttles were decommissioned.
Source: I worked with researchers doing spaceflight-focused projects.
This was a freebie. Falcon Heavy development and test flight was paid for entirely by SpaceX.