Bernie Sanders @SenSanders • 2d
We must demand that the extremely
wealthy pay their fair share. Period.

Elon Musk @elonmusk • 2d
I keep forgetting that you're still alive

ChongsCalls @ChongsCalls
The richest person in the world
shitting on the nicest person in the
world is capitalism summed up in two
tweets.

@jmcrookston Elon Musk paid over $11 billion in taxes for 2021. It's estimated he paid between $3.3 and $15 billion in 2022. And over $10 billion in taxes in 2024.

I'm starting to wonder what's Bernie's definition of "fair share" ?

@davidsabine @jmcrookston first comes the question whether legal means fair, and it doesn't, when you consider legal loopholes and legal subsidies only available to the very few for who these laws are created. Second, whether a society is fair when few have all the say, which it is not when an individual can extract exceptional wealth with which they can buy exceptional powers over others in that society. So this is not about dizzying numbers, but about perverted $ rules and perverted $ power.
@clusterfcku @jmcrookston, if you're concerned about perverted $ rules and perverted $ power… just wait until I tell you about GOVERNMENT.
@davidsabine @jmcrookston you're missing the point entirely; musk bought himself a lot of government