Posted on 12/15/2021 8:42:00 AM PST by SmokingJoe
Oh, he’s anti-taxes today?
Elon Musk: ‘My top recommendation’ for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a carbon tax
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/elon-musk-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-with-a-carbon-tax.html
Elon Musk Says He Back Estate Tax, Hated by Rich People
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4019091/posts
While my work/commute situation has changed, and an EV would probably work for 99% of my driving (I could probably rent a gasoline powered car for long range trips)... Even the Model 3, the cheapest Tesla with incentives is about 2x what I paid for my little gas powered sedan. Not even a hybrid, and I can get 50 mpg with it. Maybe next time around when I replace the sedan...
Say what you want, I love this guy!
A Senator/Congresscritter calling a private citizen that provides thousands of high paying jobs, a freeloader? Come again.....
He sold billions of dollars in shares just to make a point that if they raise tax rates on long term gains people like him will cash out sooner to pay less now than they would have to pay in the future. He’s not just a paper billionaire. He’s got cash.
“Elon Musk: ‘I Will Pay the Most Taxes of Any American In History’”
Point here...it is never enough with the liberals so the statement is redundant.
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Fauxcohontas’s mistake was engaging in a battle of wits with Elon Musk and coming to the fight unarmed.
If you owe someone money, you should pay them. Period.
I understand fully what you said about perhaps respecting Musk more if he wasn’t dipping his hands into those subsidies. But I do view these things overall in a different light.
If you are not breaking the law when you are using the loophole or openly lying when obtaining welfare, how can you be culpable?
To fully expect people to be virtuous is a Leftist concept that our Founders would have (and did) completely rejected, which is why our Constitution was constructed in the way that it was.
It was constructed that way to take into account the innate flaws, shortcomings, and inevitable corruptions of Man. In the eyes of the founders, it was dangerous to assume that people would do the “right thing” so the Constitution was written to assume that people would do the wrong thing and try to prevent them from doing so.
We live (or at least, used to live) in a Constitutional Republic which is the rule of laws, not an oligarchy (which is what we live in now) which is a rule of a group of humans. Rules are rules. Implement good rules and people must follow or break them.
The FAR larger issue I have is not with people who use loopholes or are outright openly enabled due to laws legally passed by legislation, the MAJOR issue I have is with the people who legally pass that legislation that enables it.
John Adams said in his famous quote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” and I believe in that.
People who take advantage bad welfare policy, loopholes in taxes or subsidies in industries may be smart even if they are not moral, but it is NOT ONLY the MORAL task of elected officials to not approve bad welfare legislation, close tax loopholes left open, or not vote for those subsidies, it is their damned job to vote in bad welfare legislation, close those ‘unfair’ loopholes or not vote for those subsidies, and I hold THEM in the highest contempt, and ultimately responsible when they don’t do so.
And quite often, they don’t do so because they are personally profiting in some way from them, via bought off votes if not money flowing directly into their own pockets.
"Please don't call the manager on me, Senator Karen." ... "And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year," continued Musk. "Don't spend it all at once … oh wait you did already."
Musk has feuded with other progressive politicians in the past, including both Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last month.
Part of that problem, for which there is no real answer I know of, is the people who benefit from the loopholes contributing campaign (and other) funds to the people who enable them.
VERY HAPPY to see ONE of these tech giants stand up God Bless him, he left CA. God Bless him again for that!!!
"...but it is NOT ONLY the MORAL task of elected officials to not approve bad welfare legislation, close tax loopholes left open, or not vote for those subsidies, it is their damned job to NOT vote in bad welfare legislation, close those ‘unfair’ loopholes or not vote for those subsidies, and I hold THEM in the highest contempt, and ultimately responsible when they don’t do so..."
Heh, otherwise, they WOULD be doing their jobs in a most extraordinarily efficient fashion!
That was exactly what I was referring to. That we allow contributions to candidates who enact legislation from the beneficiaries of that legislation is criminal, IMO.
“Take the red pill.” — Elon Musk
Humorous how casually an African-Canadian-American multi-billionaire (and self-confessed socialist) tosses around the term “American.”
What would you want him to call himself then?
At a hefty $12 Billion in taxes this year alone, he’s certainly paid a heck of a lot for the
privilege of calling himself American.
He should run for POTUS...........Oh, wait, he was born in Africa..............Okay, no problem, right?...............
I know he dips with both hands with subsidies
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As do so many other corporation dip into fully legal subsidies - which, if you don’t like the idea, petition your congress critter to change. You are doing that aren’t you?
You’re not just unfairly railing at Musk because you hate him or are jealous, right? Perhaps the idea of a person paying billions in taxes is not enough for you and you would rather see him pilloried and run out of town on a rail?
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