Good post, TomB!

"Maybe then we could actually get a tax cut, and get some of our money back, so we can make our own choices about how best to spend them, rather than letting bureaucrats and politicians in Washington make those decisions for us."

Fat chance, as long as you continue to send in those income tax payments. Complaining doesn't work. It takes action.

"So that’s why I’m hoping Tesla’s Model 3 is a "
My inclination is to hope it is a complete bomb and every single unit sold has so many problems it bankrupts the company.
BUT
bankruptcy just encourages the incompetent management to go out and do it again and continue to steal from honest people.

Maybe the bankruptcy laws are part of the problem, Not a solution.
Maybe it's time to throw out all the changes to federal law since 1912 and start again.
Don't give the state the money to waste.