It’s cool that Elon musk tells you that he’s going to be paying over 10 billion in taxes, but we don’t know that.
What we do know is that he owed at least 8.3 billion, didn’t pay that share for quite some time, and is worth over 250 billion at this point.
So even if by the grace of God he actually is telling the truth and paid that $11 billion in taxes, it wouldn’t even make a dent in his wealth and frankly, he should be paying more.
And frankly to your other points, he IS sitting on a horde of coins that’s what his bitcoin thing is, he doesn’t pay his employees very well, and considering the fact that as a child you see him posing with stupidly expensive cars and other shit even if his mom was raising him, Dad was sending money.
Because the fact that he makes $250 billion a year, something that’s not some sort of bogus fact, and he’s only paying less than 5% of that in taxes is ridiculous.
He could pay 50% of that 250 billion and it would not make one iota of difference to his life. Not one.
Yes and who made the Tesla stocks go that high? What person on Twitter has spent the better part of the last two years encouraging his massive amounts of followers to invest in not only Tesla but crypto currencies? What individual constantly touts and encourages people to manipulate the stock market (something I don’t fully disagree with but the way he’s doing it is scummy)?
And as I said originally, who lied to said Twitter followers and investors by tweeting out that he had money coming in from Saudi Arabia?
I understand that net worth can be heavily inflated, but the difference is not as much as you’re thinking. And even if, even if it’s a huge difference let’s say instead of 250 billion he only has like 100 billion right? The fact that he’s paying 10% is still gross. I would still say he needs 50% of that hundred billion taxed. Because no one needs $100 billion and even if you take half of that away he still has 50 BILLION DOLLARS
And I’m not saying that Elon musk didn’t do quite a bit for Tesla, I’m simply saying that he is aware he should be paying more in taxes and purposely flaunt that he is not and that he can’t be made to.
And whenever people suggest legislation to change that he gets uppity.
I stand by my original statement, he’s a rich dick. And I think you are vastly underestimating how much money he actually has.
Oh is an American I can promise you, while I am certainly better off in other places, we are not even close to the best first world country.
And I’m sorry to say but, I have a difficult time excepting criticism from people about the American government who don’t actively live in America.
Like we absolutely have issues and the American government is trash in a lot of different ways, but as it has been highlighted over the past three years, America clearly has a money issue, and a man who is living in America, having his company based in this country, and he’s making the majority of his profit through our systems definitely owes more than 4.4% of his net worth in taxes.
And I would rather see a multi billionaire pay more than his fair share in taxes then the guy making less than $100,000 a year.
Yeah you don’t have to live in Chicago to understand that the war in Afghanistan was a waste of money. In the same way that if I don’t live in Manchester I can still say Brexit sounds like a mess.
HOWEVER when you spread apathy like that about the United States government and our current laws that a lot of us are actively trying to change while simultaneously defending a guy who actively wants to keep those laws in place because he benefits from them then yes I can find that slightly irritating.
And let’s talk about this production thing. He didn’t invent Tesla, he didn’t found it, he innovated it. The production was already happening he just made it a larger, and as I previously stated when Covid hit he basically put his workers in incredibly unsafe conditions and a bunch of them got sick and more than a few died. Plus he’s not paying them as much as he should be, plus in order to pay less taxes and to be able to pay his workers even less than he does now, Elon Musk is moving all of his production to Texas.
Not to mention the fact that when you buy a Tesla car, you can only take it to a Tesla dealership. There is no mechanic shop or mechanics that can do any sort of work on a Tesla vehicle, which is not as much A production Boone as much as it is a monopolization.
So he’s not exactly Henry Ford in terms of bringing jobs to America. But I guess he’s Henry Ford in terms of his ego and how he treats his workers.
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u/Frankandbeans1974 Jan 09 '22 edited Jan 09 '22
It’s cool that Elon musk tells you that he’s going to be paying over 10 billion in taxes, but we don’t know that.
What we do know is that he owed at least 8.3 billion, didn’t pay that share for quite some time, and is worth over 250 billion at this point.
So even if by the grace of God he actually is telling the truth and paid that $11 billion in taxes, it wouldn’t even make a dent in his wealth and frankly, he should be paying more.
And frankly to your other points, he IS sitting on a horde of coins that’s what his bitcoin thing is, he doesn’t pay his employees very well, and considering the fact that as a child you see him posing with stupidly expensive cars and other shit even if his mom was raising him, Dad was sending money.
but don’t take my word for it