Issues such as billionaires paying very little taxes and the rich getting richer are on the minds of many people. It seems that Ron Wylden, a member of the US Democratic Senate, is also uncomfortable with this situation. So, did Elon Musk care about this inconvenience? The answer is as you know.
Ron Wylden recently quoted a tweet from Elon Musk, saying it’s time for billionaires to pay income taxes. Musk, who didn’t care much for this criticism, mocked Wylden’s Twitter profile photo.
Short conversation between the two:
The problem of billionaires not paying taxes came to the fore again last week, and it was said that the problem of hunger in the world could be solved with only 2% of Elon Musk’s wealth. In addition, the fact that Musk does not pay taxes has also become the focus of criticism. Musk recently launched a survey on Twitter, and the survey concluded that Musk should sell $21 billion worth of Tesla shares.
One of the responses to the post where Elon Musk first made this offer was from Senator Ron Wylden. Saying that the time has come for the tax, Wylden replied, “Whether the world’s richest man pays any taxes should not depend on the results of a Twitter poll. “It’s time for an income tax for billionaires,” he said. Musk’s sarcastic response did not take long. The billionaire, who was obviously bored after the Twitter poll, in which the yes answer received 58% of the vote, said to Wylden, “Why does your profile picture look like you just went blank?”
Elon Musk, who mostly took a cynical attitude in his tweets, said that he would comply with this result regardless of the survey result and that he would pay his taxes by selling 10% of Tesla shares if necessary. We’ll soon see if he’ll actually do that, as the poll is only out today.
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