Are you? How much tax did you pay this year to fund essential services, Musk paid $11billion in 2021, how close are you to that? Quite far off? Perhaps you should get a job then and start giving all your money away, who knows if everyone does it it might come close
please dont make him out to be altruistic just because he pays what he is required to...by law..
If he pays what is required by law, as you have also done, what exactly is the problem? Where is his obligation to pay more? That's not saying he is altruistic, but him not volunteering more tax payments doesn't make him evil. Nevermind those tax payments are billions of dollars.
So Musk pays his legally required taxes, to the tune of billions of dollars, and you even acknowledge he has no obligation to give more. Yet somehow he's evil because he doesn't voluntarily spend his remaining wealth solving the world's problems?
That's quite the moral standard. Apparently paying billions in taxes isn't enough unless you personally eradicate world hunger afterward.
And Musk didn't personally engineer the car you're complaining about. Tesla has engineers who design and develop its vehicles. But sure, let's pretend every engineering project is Musk playing with his personal piggy bank instead of a company employing people to build products.
The argument is that the law doesn't tax people fairly because the richest have been getting tax cuts since Reagan. The richest people pay too little un comparison to what they earn (when they aren't comitting tax evasion).
Billions is absolutely nothing to trillions. And these people use that money to fuck over us workers. Stop batting for trillionaires.
If you think the wealthy should be taxed more, that's an argument for changing the tax laws. It doesn't establish that someone complying with those laws is doing something wrong.
And billions in taxes doesn't suddenly become "nothing" because someone's wealth is measured in larger numbers.
I'm not arguing that Musk is altruistic or that tax policy is perfect. I'm questioning the idea that someone is morally obligated to voluntarily surrender more of their wealth simply because they have it.
Disagreeing with that doesn't mean I'm "batting for trillionaires."
Yeah, pretty much. People are big mad at the bad, evil billionaire, who... checks notes.. pays his legally required share of billions in taxes, shares this publicly as well, but it still isn't enough, because he has more he could give... to taxes?
Why doesn't Musk solve world hunger or something more useful?! /s
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u/sloth_ers 5h ago
Are you mental? Theres no comparison, at all.
Thats like comparing crumbs and a whole fucking cake shop.