Tesla, the obnoxious green car company whose products roam the streets of Beverly Hills and carry its assorted movie stars, is about to get a lesson in sustainability if the Republican congressional tax reform bill goes through.  No more free stuff.

Here's one example; Will.i.am's custom wide-body Tesla S parked on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.  Highsnobiety has the details.

Here's another: Mel Gibson having a cow over a valet not bringing him back his Tesla soon enough. Daily Mail on the job.

Turns out the big reason anyone buys one of these green vehicles isn't to virtue-signal, although there's a lot of that going on.  It's that Tesla buyers get a $10,000 tax break, while you, buying a humble used Honda or Chevy to get to work, get nothing.

I do not know all the particulars of this, but I have known people who have told me that that tax break, combined with other tax breaks and subsidies, effectively makes driving a Tesla free, at least for some buyers.  The Daily Caller notes that the subsidies of these green machines pretty well drive the sales, citing a Wall Street Journal report that notes that when Hong Kong ended Tesla subsidies and tax breaks, nobody wanted to buy these overpriced things.

If that isn't a subsidy crying out for a tax reform, what is?  Let's hope the GOP makes a selling point of this disgusting corporate welfare to virtue-signal and gets its tax bill done, passed, and out the door.  Hollywood's elites don't need more free stuff.