Elizabeth Warren on X - "If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America."
Clown World ™ π€‘ on X - "Elon Musk’s wealth is in shares, not a checking account. Force a tax like that and he has to sell stock, the company loses value, thousands of employees lose their jobs, and the government still doesn’t get anywhere close to what you’re promising. This take is what happens when you’ve never run a business in your life."
Guy Swann on X - "• You and your friends would steal 80% of it
• you’d come in 300% over budget and still spend 3x what you taxed
• you’d start 2 useless departments that soak up billions yearly forever going forward
• the entire mess would be riddled with bribes, fraud, and fake daycares
• you’d be proposing a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and then permanent wealth tax to deal with the “gross underfunding” of your corrupt “childcare for everyone” empire.
The icing on the cake? Childcare costs in the US would increase by 40% in 2 years."
NotKennyRogers on X - "There are currently 190,000 children in Chicago living below the poverty level. For the price of the $900 million Obama library, we could have given each one of these poor children in Chicago $4,736. Am I doing this right?"
mert on X - ""ive been in office for 13 years and our yearly budget is 7 trillion but we can't help children unless we steal from the guy doing spaceflight""
mert on X - ""we couldn't do anything useful for citizens in my 14 years of office allocating 60 trillion USD. but if we can just steal from the rocket science electric car guy, then we can solve all your problems.""
wokeandwoofing on X - "If I had Elon's money I would solve world hunger instantly.π‘ Sent from a device purchased with with a sum of money that could have been used to feed an Ethiopian family for a year, but wasn't, because my generosity is purely hypothetical."
Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: 'sadly,' it makes the world a worse place | Fortune
Weird. Left wingers hate Elon Musk because he supposedly could've donated $6 billion to end world hunger. Yet they are good with MacKenzie Scott literally murdering people (including children) by not donating $6 billion to end world hunger (since they claim stopping USAID fraud killed 600,000 people)
Alice Smith on X - "They don’t want Elon Musk to give his trillion to the poor. They want Elon Musk to give his trillion to them so they can take their cut, split it with their comrades and causes, then look virtuous by throwing to the poor whatever scraps remain."
Renatta Oxendine on X - "Good news for those who hate billionaires: Elon Musk is no longer a billionaire."
Melissa Chen on X - "Today’s flood of Western media hit pieces and ridiculous commentary on Elon and SpaceX is yet another sign that the West is rotting from the inside. EVEN the Chinese Communists treat their national champions with more respect than these pathetic hacks. The CCP and its state mouthpieces aren’t half as deranged with envy. They may leash guys like Jack Ma and slap them down hard when they step out of line, but at least they’re smart enough to understand that they need their best talent and innovators to deliver prosperity for their people, dominate global markets, project raw power across the planet, and forge their nation into a ruthless superpower. The Chinese see them as vital strategic national assets and would never publicly insult or attack the ambitious, high-achieving mindset that creates these winners in the first place. SpaceX is, without a doubt, America’s national champion. Elon built the first reusable orbital rockets (Falcon 9), slashed launch costs, launched more missions in a single year than entire nations, revived American space dominance, sent NASA astronauts to the ISS aboard Crew Dragon, built the Starlink constellation that now beams high-speed internet to millions across the globe (including battlefields and disaster zones), and is developing Starship - the most powerful fully reusable rocket ever built, designed to make humanity an inter-planetary species. Yet the Western press and Democratic officials are almost unanimously attacking the one man going above and beyond to secure prosperity, technological supremacy, and raw national strength for our civilization. These people are vile soul-sucking wreckers who despise all excellence. The only thing they can produce is endless grievance and failure. All they know to do is tear down the successful, insult greatness, and wallow in their own mediocrity."
tetsuo on X - "History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit."
Bill Ackman on X - ".@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX , driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense. SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world. Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere. SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity. Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help. The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist. Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives. Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation. Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears. Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction. We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country."
Crime In NYC on X - "Elon Musk's contribution to the national economy:
Over 2021–2025, Musk's companies (Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company) reportedly injected ~$338 billion directly into the U.S. economy via:
• $110.7 billion in wages/salaries (supporting • 200,000+ employees at competitive pay).
• ~$46 billion in taxes (corporate, payroll, etc.).
• $182 billion+ in supplier spending (e.g., Tesla alone spent heavily on U.S. batteries, chips, steel).
Source: https://odaily.news/en/post/5207545
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- During his lifetime, Bernie Sanders has contributed approximately $0.00 to the national economy."
Bernie's contribution is negative, actually
David Knight Legg on X - "Globe & Mail reporter Chris Gay told Canadian readers ‘how to properly hate’ @elonmusk for becoming a trillionaire via SpaceX. Here’s an idea:
- Maybe Mr Gay could explain to readers why Canadas fed govt lost $50bn betting against Tesla on EVs - and is in the process of losing billions more backing no-launch capacity Telesat to compete with StarLink - SpaceX. Our federal govt is lighting on fire billions we don’t have betting against a guy changing the lives of millions with reusable rockets, global internet, EVs, nueralink, boring company etc. Capitalism creates wealth as markets embrace life-improving goods and services. Which is why our teachers will get an $11bn windfall via their pension betting with Musk. Socialism destroys it through the politics of envy and statist central planning and loss-making ‘investments’ which is why this federal govt is so awful at capital allocation. @globeandmail - pls tell the whole story."
Left wingers will still claim the Globe and Mail is "centre-right" and that Carney is "conservative" (because he's not destroying the economy as fast as Trudeau was)
Melissa Chen on X - "These are the exact same people who made “countering hate” their entire identity. They were the first to plant “Hate Has No Place Here” signs on their lawns. They insist “hate speech isn’t free speech.” They proudly fund groups like Hope Not Hate and Stop AAPI Hate They still chant “Love Trumps Hate” like it’s scripture. Yet here they are, in the pages of The Globe and Mail, publishing a guide on “how to properly hate” Elon Musk for the crime of building SpaceX into a company that could make him the world’s first trillionaire. Proof positive that their “anti-hate” crusade was never about hate. They are, in reality, full of hate. It was always about who they’re allowed to hate"
David Yelland on X - "What has Elon Musk taken from you? So ask many including Andrew Neil. Here's the answer: He has taken our peace of mind. He has purposefully pushed us apart, divided us further and profited from our loss of community. And that is hard to ever forgive."
Left wingers - the party of "coexist", "love" and "empathy" - are seething with hatred and envy
Melissa Chen on X - "lol these people need to grow up. They don’t build. They don’t create. They just sit on their asses, consume, complain, and then have the audacity to claim someone like Elon “took their peace of mind.” Bro, your peace of mind was never real. It was a curated illusion maintained by gatekeepers who banned dissent, shadowbanned wrongthink, and lied through their teeth for years. The second the feed stopped being a safe little bubble where your opinions were treated like gospel, you all lost your minds. You say Elon “divided us.” No, he just stopped letting you pretend the divisions didn’t exist while you censored the other half of the country into silence. I suppose I shouldn’t expect someone who works for the BBC to acknowledge this. Low-agency people don’t have an internal engine. Their entire emotional state is outsourced to external conditions. If the world doesn’t validate their feelings 24/7, if someone dares to speak freely, if reality doesn’t bend to their narrative, they collapse into petulant toddler mode: “Waaah, HE destroyed my inner peace!” I’m sorry, does the universe owe you inner peace? Or is it an internal state that you achieve when you stop being a reactive little bitch and start taking responsibility for your own life? That’s the fundamental split. High-agency people look at problems and say “how do I fix this or beat it?” Low-agency people look at problems and say “who’s responsible for making me feel this way so I can cancel them?” One group moves the world forward while the other just seethes, copes, and demands the rest of us accommodate their fragility. The leftist mindset is more or less synonymous with low-agency. The problem with media historically is that there are many of them working as journalists."
Kat on X - "People want to hate on Elon because he shows you what's possible. Your excuse that it's too difficult to create is out the window. Do 1 millionth of what Elon does and you'll be considered successful."
Meme - Melissa Chen @MsMelChen: "It's true that large pools of capital can have distortionary effects on markets and democracy. But until leftists can show they've criticized Soros or Singham for it, nobody should buy their anti-oligarch virtue signal. Where are the receipts? Yeah, thought so"
"No results for roy singham neville No results for soros from:lewis_goodall"
Lewis Goodall: "Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved."
Threads - "I’m so confused as to how Elon Musk is the first trillionaire when he MADE UP the valuation for SpaceX. He pulled it out of his ass. If he sells the company, he won’t get a trillion dollars because no one has a trillion dollars. Including him."
Left wingers don't understand anything. That's why they're poor
Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) π¨π¦π on X - "Can I just point out how funny this is, given the paper is owned by Canada’s wealthiest billionaire family, all of whom inherited their wealth. Should we hate them for that? Of course not, because that would be gross. But, it reflects our tall-poppy syndrome at its finest. Personally, I’m glad that the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is getting a nice payout, as will many others who took a big risk investing in SpaceX. I wish we had more audacious entrepreneurs making big bets and generating great jobs and wealth here in Ontario. I want to create an environment that makes it even more likely. The world is not zero sum. The size of the pie is not fixed. If we make more, everyone can get a big piece."
Bruce Arthur on X - "Were I running for a political leadership position in Canada I would simply not simp for Elon Musk, who is responsible for an incredible number of deaths, and is currently encouraging race riots in Ireland"
Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) π¨π¦π on X - "What did I say that you actually disagree with? As you just pointed out there are plenty of other reasons to dislike Musk. We have an incumbent “intellectual” class that eschews debate, thinking, and nuance, and thinks politics is healthy when leaders do the same."
Bruce Arthur on X - "Beyond the implicit moral shallowness, it’s not good for anyone to be worth a trillion dollars, much less someone as monstrous as Musk, even before you get into the boring rot of trickle-down economics"
Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) π¨π¦π on X - "There is nothing implicitly or explicitly morally shallow about this. Bruce, what is the right level of cutoff for the level of wealth that someone should be able to create? What is the right level to inherit? Why? To me, a competitive entrepreneurial economy with risk taking creates wealth but also interesting work for people, which also means opportunity that we wouldn’t have had before. My concern, in government, is to tax that fairly to provide a level of welfare befitting of an advanced and prosperous society that sees value in every individual. This is the promise of a liberal economy. And that to me allows us the luxury to be morally and ethically good."
Bruce Arthur on X - "Not shallow, huh"
Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) π¨π¦π on X - "You really don’t want to engage on the question eh?"
Bruce Arthur on X - "Just tag the Shopify guys next time, they might get excited"
Left wingers can't answer the question, because really the criteria for someone being too rich is to be richer than them and on the wrong side
Jonathan Kay on X - "Watching this guy flounder around when he gets called out on his inanities is hilarious"
Doug Jordan on X - "Absolutely deplorable performance for a journalist. But this is what we’ve come to expect of the Toronto Star."
Henrick Johansson on X - "Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire. If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands. Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax"
Shruti on X - "Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor."
Aakash Gupta on X - "Google's IPO created roughly 1,000 millionaires. Facebook's did about the same. SpaceX just created 4,400, with 400 of them above $100 million each. The structural reason matters more than the feel-good stories. Companies that stay private for decades usually concentrate the upside in VCs and founders. By the time regular employees get liquid, the 100x already happened on someone else's cap table. SpaceX stayed private for 24 years, the longest run to a mega IPO in history, and routed that compounding into payroll. Stock grants at every level, plus share purchases through paycheck deductions, down to welders and cafeteria staff. Run the math on what that meant. SpaceX was valued around $12 billion in early 2015. The IPO priced it at $1.77 trillion. That's 147x in 11 years, roughly 57% annualized. A welder buying shares with $200 paycheck deductions compounded at a rate most funds never touch once. The part people gloss over: this was financing, and the workforce carried real risk. In 2008 the company was weeks from bankruptcy after three failed Falcon 1 launches. Below-market salary plus rocket startup equity was a terrible deal in every timeline where the rockets kept blowing up. For two decades the employees were, collectively, one of SpaceX's largest investors. Thousands of startups pay in equity. Almost all of that paper expires worthless. This bet only paid because the company survived 24 years, landed the rockets, and went public at the largest valuation in IPO history. 4,400 people just got paid for holding through every one of those filters. The factory floor was the venture capital."
