As Elon Musk has made very clear this week, he is not in favor of the billionaire tax proposed by Democratic leadership, which would raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help fund Joe Bidens Build Back Better bill and make life better for millions of Americans. In the mind of the Tesla cofounder, who is worth $292 billion, he already pays more than his fair share in taxes, even though, like many of the richest people in the country, he actually forks over a relative pittance to the IRS. In 2018, for example, the now richest man in the world paid a grand total of nothing in income taxes, and between 2014 and 2018, he paid what ProPublica calls a true tax rate of 3.27%. Which, as any nonbillionaire can attest, is a f--k ton less than what normal people who dont own their own rocket ship companies part with every tax season.
According to Musk, though, the proposal by Democrats is a nefarious plot that must be stopped. Without a scintilla of irony, the Tesla cofounder warned on Monday that taxing him on the increase in value of his publicly traded assets will ultimately hurt people who wont make as much money in their lifetimes as he does in one hour. Eventually, they run out of other peoples money and then they come for you, he warned, trying to convince people to contact their representatives by letter and write: Although the proposal targets billionaires and not myself, the government of elected representatives have a track record of scope creep when writing new taxes. I anticipate that any new unrealized capital gains taxes will slowly make their way down to middle class retirement investments over the next several years. It will start with billionaires, then eventually millionaires, then the modest investments will get hit possibly within a decade. Which is deeply rich considering the plan proposed by Biden, which the 700 richest people in the country could help fund without making a real dent in their net worths, would include universal preschool for all three- and four-year olds; subsidized child care; a one-year extension on the current expanded Child Tax Credit, which impacts roughly 35 million households; and a four-year extension on pandemic-related Affordable Care Act subsidies, i.e. things that would make peoples live much easier.
So, where does Musk prefer to spend his cash? If you guessed outer space, congratulations, you know your billionaires. Per Bloomberg:
The worlds richest person, Elon Musk, said he plans to use his money to get humanity to Mars and preserve the light of consciousness as Democrats weigh a billionaires tax for the wealthiest Americans that could hit him hardest of all. TheTesla Inc.CEO was responding to a tweet by Washington Post reporter Christian Davenport, who said that Musk andAmazon.com Inc.founder Jeff Bezoss tax bills under the proposed planas much as $50 billion and $44 billion over the first five yearscould pay for a mission to Mars. Bezos and Musk have a combined net worth thatapproached$500 billion Wednesday, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. The tax plan promoted by some congressional Democrats explicitly targeted appreciated public shareholdings, which have been a main driver of billionaires steep wealth gains in recent years.
Musk, whose net worth reached about$292 billion, has been particularly vocal on Twitter against the billionaires tax. He argued in an earlier tweet that spending is the real problem and that taxing all billionaires at 100% would only make a small dent in the U.S. national debt.In anothertweet, Musk said that the unrealized capital gains tax proposal targeted at billionaires could eventually be widened to the middle class.
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