This is why Musk wants to defeat Biden. Biden’s billionaire tax on the rich…
Under Biden’s proposals, a 25% tax on those with more than $100 million would raise $500 billion over 10 years to help fund benefits such as child care and paid parental leave.
Buying politicians can get expensive. Wont you think of the poor billionaires that would have to cut down on their bribery if there were a wealth tax??
Buying politicians is depressingly cheap. Like, on the order of tens of thousands of dollars or less. Firmly out of reach for the average citizen but for the power players that’s one good night out on a weekend.
This is why Musk wants to defeat Biden. Biden’s billionaire tax on the rich…
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/bidens-billionaire-tax-hits-the-super-rich-can-a-wealth-tax-work.html
And with that 25% tax he would still have more money than he could ever spend. These billionaires are not humans, their ghouls. They deserve our hate.
For them money is just a highscore. They either win or lose, the actual amount doesn’t matter at all.
The asshole could spend a thousand lifetimes just lying on the beach and sipping removedtails and he’d still be a billionaire.
Buying politicians can get expensive. Wont you think of the poor billionaires that would have to cut down on their bribery if there were a wealth tax??
Its not bribery if they give it to them after the fact
Buying politicians is depressingly cheap. Like, on the order of tens of thousands of dollars or less. Firmly out of reach for the average citizen but for the power players that’s one good night out on a weekend.
if he keeps dragging his companies down, he won’t have to worry so much about a tax on the ultra-wealthy anymore.
Unfortunately, government bailouts exist.
More importantly, the race is a 50/50 split and if Trump won, and Elon didn’t pay up, all of his most profitable businesses could be killed by Trump.
For example, Trump has been threatening to fuck over EV manufacturers.