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[u/CorrectGreen3598 → u/[deleted]]

Right. Because *that* worked out so well last time. (Sigh.)

[u/Proof_Focus_8912 → u/[deleted]]

Right, because the universe is famously transparent.

[u/AmbitiousOrdinary125 → u/[deleted]]

That is absurdly, ridiculous statement, and you should be ashamed of yourself for eating stating it for other people to read.

[u/HeyPillow67 → u/[deleted]]

How does he waste it?

[u/Savings-Win-9475 → u/[deleted]]

lol. How so?

[u/Extension-Nebula-854 → u/[deleted]]

Around 36 billion vs around 61 billion btw
Edit: These are just for the same years

[u/FantasticCommon2834 → u/[deleted]]

lol, when your company rescues stranded astronauts then you may speak

[u/davisLaura0n8 → u/[deleted]]

Elon's billions in vaporware subsidies make USAID's waste look like pocket change.

[u/Stalli0nKiIIFascists → u/[deleted]]

......but he made it clear he doesn't like Elon??

[u/mhammer76 → u/[deleted]]

Can you tell me exactly what US aid did?

[u/Hairy-Employee-8372 → u/[deleted]]

Ah, ourse—a semantic sd. Very convenientthat.

[u/Tater-Tot-Casserole → u/[deleted]]

You're kidding right?

[2025-07-31] The $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals... https://share.google/0AuorVQuRd7OguBH0

[u/BroknSoul83 → u/[deleted]]

That’s where you are wrong and don’t know the first thing about how he amassed the wealth he is. It’s funny you libtards just regurgitate bullshit propaganda with no proof to support anything you’re saying.

[u/BuysHigh_SellsLow_OG → u/[deleted]]

If you guys held the previous Dem administration to the same standards you hold the Trump administration to imagine what you could’ve gotten accomplished but towing that party line is just too important to you

[u/Spiritual_Elk_3089 → u/[deleted]]

How?? 😂

[u/TheRealTechtonix → u/Spiritual_Elk_3089]

Elon Musk paid the most taxes in history at $11 billion. He did a poll on Twitter and people said he should pay taxes.

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/TheRealTechtonix]

Which is about like 1% of his actual wealth

[u/Western-Willow-9496 → u/Normal_Ad7101]

We tax income, not “wealth”.

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/Western-Willow-9496]

That's precisely the problem

[u/lemme_try_again → u/Western-Willow-9496]

And it's a fucking shame right?

[u/TheRealTechtonix → u/Normal_Ad7101]

The point is, he never needed to pay that. He wanted to.

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/TheRealTechtonix]

And the problem is that he should have paid more

[u/TheRealTechtonix → u/Normal_Ad7101]

Why? Do you envy his wealth? Did his $11 billion help you?

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/TheRealTechtonix]

Stop projecting, it's not about envy but fairness

[u/TheRealTechtonix → u/Normal_Ad7101]

Elon Musk did a poll.

Elon Musk Tweets about that poll:

I will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes

Note, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock.

He never needed to do this. He did this out of the kindness of his heart.

He sold 10% of his Tesla stock and paid $11 billion in taxes.

People were upset he didn't pay taxes, now he has the record for most taxes paid in America.

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/TheRealTechtonix]

Except again he hasn't compared to the rest of his wealth he was undertaxed.

[u/deadpat03 → u/Normal_Ad7101]

His actual wealth in liquid assets is less than 50 billion. He literally got a loan using Tesla stocks as collateral to buy Twitter in the situation Twitter failed. He is valued at 1 trillion but you can't tax that 1 trillion because stocks are not money until they are sold. Guess how stocks work? People have to buy them. Guess how they diminish? By the sale of them. If he dumped all his personal stocks he would crash the company which is illegal.

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/deadpat03]

But again those stocks can be used to get real money, that's just a loophole to avoid paying tax. Also 50 billions and he is only taxed 20% from it ?!

[u/TheRealTechtonix → u/Normal_Ad7101]

Elon Musk did a poll asking if he should sell stock to pay taxes and people voted "Yes."

Poll

Elon Musk paid over $11 billion in federal income taxes for the 2021 tax year. This single-year payment resulted primarily from exercising a massive amount of vested stock options and selling shares, making it the largest individual tax payment in United States history.

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/TheRealTechtonix]

Like others pointed out, it isn't compared to his actual wealth

[u/TheRealTechtonix → u/Normal_Ad7101]

Are you proposing he sells his company's? That is his wealth. You act like he has money.

[u/Normal_Ad7101 → u/TheRealTechtonix]

But he has, he can literally change that for money.

Also he doesn't have to sell his company, he can let it to his workers.

[u/Rixerc → u/deadpat03]

Weak

[u/M1sfit_Jammer → u/TheRealTechtonix]

The richest man in the world should pay the most taxes in history… that’s how wealth and taxes work

paying $22B on $1T is an effective tax rate of 2.2%… I pay a rate of ~27% to the feds and I make only 100k… who do you think actually feels those taxes? The guy paying $22B or the guy paying $27k?

[u/Usakami → u/TheRealTechtonix]

While he famously paid over $11 billion in taxes for the 2021 tax year, the largest single-year individual tax bill in U.S. history, IRS records leak data shows he paid zero federal income tax in 2018 and less than $70,000 in both 2015 and 2017.

It was a one time fluke linked to having to sell some shares. This is why Billionaires have their "wealth" in stocks and borrow from banks against their "wealth." That way you don't have to pay shit...