 Tech Billionaire Elon Musk is a visionary who dreams of moving to Mars. He isn't just one of the planet's richest people. He's one of its biggest recipients of government handouts, according to Lisa Conyers and Phil Harvey, authors of Welfare for the Rich, how your tax dollars end up in millionaires' pockets and what you can do about it. By 2015, companies led by Musk had already gotten billions in subsidies, tax breaks, and other handouts. And he's not alone. There are thousands of other immensely rich people who are constantly milking the government for special perks, carve-outs, and handouts. Here are five of the very worst ways they do that. Since 1933, when Congress passed the first Farm Support Bill, the government has been shoveling billions of dollars in the form of crop insurance, cash payouts, and other subsidies to the smaller and smaller number of American farmers. As Conyers and Harvey document, former Obama Commerce Secretary and billionaire Penny Pritzker received $1.6 million in subsidies between 1996 and 2006. And Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is part of a family business that got over $3 million in subsidies between 1995 and 2008. Because of protectionist tariffs and price supports, Americans pay around triple the world price for sugar, thanks to efforts by billionaires like the Fonnel Brothers, Alfie and Peppy, dubbed the first family of corporate welfare by Time Magazine. Many, if not most, pro-sports team owners are billionaires. Yet between 1997 and 2015, almost half of all construction costs for new NFL stadiums were covered by taxpayers. In the case of Raymond James Stadium, home to Super Bowl champs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, taxpayers ponied up 100% of building costs, and the team basically gets all revenue generated at the stadium too. The Walt Disney Corporation, with a market cap of $368 billion, is the heavyweight champ among theme park operators when it comes to sweetheart deals. Disney returned $2.3 billion to investors in 2017 alone, and Bob Iger, chairman and CEO, earns north of $45 million a year. So, of course, Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California, needs handouts. 25 years ago, Anaheim built Disney a new parking structure that cost $108 million, and then leased it back to the company for the high price of $1 a year. In 2015, the city agreed to exempt the park from paying entertainment taxes for 45 years, and in 2016, it agreed to a $650 million tax rebate on a luxury hotel that Disney built near the happiest place on Earth. Over the past decade, Peabody, the largest private coal company in the world, pulled in around $275 million in state and federal subsidies, while generating $5.6 billion in revenue in 2017. Exelon, a power company that specializes in nuclear energy, generated $34 billion in revenue in 2017, the year after it gulled New York state into giving it $7.6 billion to keep four aging and underperforming nuclear power plants going. A few years back, New York state shelled out $750 million to build a factory for Elon Musk's renewable energy company, Solar City. Then they said the company would pay no property taxes for a decade, saving them another $260 million. But as Conyers and Harvey argue, in our new information rich world, citizen activists are fighting back. In Louisiana, when one group learned that Exelon and other gas and oil companies were getting away without paying property taxes, it led to a new public accountability law. They also point to websites that track subsidies and handouts, empowering citizens to protest the use of tax dollars to guilt the pockets of mega corporations and the billionaires who own them. If and when, Elon Musk actually makes it to Mars. Let's make sure he buys his own ticket.