I consider Warren Buffet as very honest though he openly admitted to have used tax loopholes to the fullest, which is not illegal. His remaining other lifestyle appears very moral and honest. The Google top execs also provided true value to the world and they most of the time adhered to laws and regulations but probably are further away from Buffet on the tax loophole scale. An example of the worst are the Sackler family members behind Purdue pharma and the Koch family...Elon plays various games, leaves California for taxes just to beg for subsidies in Texas, to have others pay for his low quality garbage cars. A life of decisions that show low regard for doing the right thing and moral values all in the pursuit of money and fame.
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The Richest in 2022
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Elon plays various games, leaves California for taxes just to beg for subsidies in Texas, to have others pay for his low quality garbage cars.
Then I guess there's a lot of fools out there paying a lot of money for those garbage cars and not buying gasoline during government policy induced gas shortage, perhaps saving the planet. Guess he scammed a lot of rural suckers into paying for urban quality satellite broadband, got many of them to praise it on Youtube, and then totally screwed them over by charging them a reasonable price. And must have just hooked Ukraine up with that crappy service in a matter of days purely as a publicity stunt. Oh and don't get me started on how SpaceX ran NASA out of business...
A person has every right to leave a state over taxes. If more people did that, maybe horribly run inefficient states like California (from a govt. perspective) would be forced to change. Businesses make decisions all the time over taxes. Every large corporation tries to get tax breaks from the local government. I think govts should charge all corporations the same rate regardless of size, but if you're a business and there's a benefit that you don't take advantage of, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage to your competition that does take advantage of those benefits. Anyway, I recall Elon tweet about leaving California over policy and regulations, not over taxes.
I guess so too. Enough suckers out there who love to be entangled in grand marketing ploys. Elon can go wherever it pleases him but leaving for high taxes just to beg other states for subsidies that ultimately WE have to pay HIM to produce HIS card is disingenuous at best.
Then I guess there's a lot of fools out there paying a lot of money for those garbage cars and not buying gasoline during government policy induced gas shortage, perhaps saving the planet. Guess he scammed a lot of rural suckers into paying for urban quality satellite broadband, got many of them to praise it on Youtube, and then totally screwed them over by charging them a reasonable price. And must have just hooked Ukraine up with that crappy service in a matter of days purely as a publicity stunt. Oh and don't get me started on how SpaceX ran NASA out of business...
A person has every right to leave a state over taxes. If more people did that, maybe horribly run inefficient states like California (from a govt. perspective) would be forced to change. Businesses make decisions all the time over taxes. Every large corporation tries to get tax breaks from the local government. I think govts should charge all corporations the same rate regardless of size, but if you're a business and there's a benefit that you don't take advantage of, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage to your competition that does take advantage of those benefits. Anyway, I recall Elon tweet about leaving California over policy and regulations, not over taxes.
I guess so too. Enough suckers out there who love to be entangled in grand marketing ploys. Elon can go wherever it pleases him but leaving for high taxes just to beg other states for subsidies that ultimately WE have to pay HIM to produce HIS card is disingenuous at best.
I would like to see a ban on states giving subsidies to incentivize corporations to build or relocate in that state. Agree that everyone else ends up subsidizing it. Just have everyone pay the same tax rate.
Scott Walker and Foxconn brought in so many jobs?I guess so too. Enough suckers out there who love to be entangled in grand marketing ploys. Elon can go wherever it pleases him but leaving for high taxes just to beg other states for subsidies that ultimately WE have to pay HIM to produce HIS card is disingenuous at best.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...der-is-a-case-study-for-biden-on-partnerships
“Walker, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, committed $3 billion in state aid four years ago to lure Foxconn to Wisconsin. It was the biggest corporate subsidy package ever awarded to a foreign enterprise, and it immediately raised questions about whether Wisconsin would recoup its investment. Evers