Elon Musk's Wealth Sparks Heated Debate Over Tax Proposals
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I suppose by now you’ve heard that Mayor Mamdani’s picks all won their primaries for US congressional seats in NYC districts?
What does it all mean?
Well, it’s not very complicated.
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The biggest lie blanketing western politics today is that the problems facing normal people are complicated and require complicated solutions.
I’ve covered this idea already, so I won’t belabor it. In short: The solutions are not complicated.
Landing a rocket on a moving barge out at sea, that’s complicated. So is beaming cheap internet from orbit, or even as I believe will happen at some point, cheap energy for everyone’s home. Likewise, designing the first consumer humanoid robot is complicated.
Solving those problems in a way that is accessible to nearly everyone would certainly make a man rich. On June 12, they made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire when SpaceX went public.
The reaction from the far left was instantaneous: Take Musk’s wealth and give it to (our friends who will then take their cut and give a miniscule, failing service, if any service at all, to) the poor.
California Rep. Ro Khanna went 20 rounds with various online detractors when he suggested a wealth tax on Musk. Massachusetts Sen. Liz Warren, as well, suggested an “ultra-millionaires” tax.
Warren suggested taking Musk’s wealth to provide “free child care” for “all three and four year olds,” seemingly unaware or unwilling to acknowledge the various “learning centers” bilking such programs of billions.
She also suggested more “free” college.
Do we really need free college? Haven’t we learned that “free” college can get us in a lot of debt trouble?
In any case, this new war on the (point-)One Percent birthed a funny trend online. It can be summed up in one question: What’d Elon Musk ever do to me?
“It’s not the top 2% causing the deodorant to be locked behind glass at the supermarket,” one commenter noted. “It’s not Elon Musk stealing packages from your doorstep.”
“Who’s robbing the stores? Who’s spraying graffiti over nice buildings? Who’s stabbing people pretty much daily now? Who’s stealing bikes? Who’s leaving garbage all over? Who’s shitting under the bridge? Not the billionaires,” another commented.
“It isn’t trillionaires behind me on the train listening to music with no headphones,” said another.
Finally, this old tweet got screencapped and started going viral everywhere.
It says:
Maybe the most important thing you learn by attending public school is that we are all at the mercy of the bottom quintile. The rules you follow in life will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile, the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile, the greatest risks to your life and property will come from the bottom quintile, the dearth of comfortable public spaces is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to be there, our zoning laws are developed for fear of the bottom quintile.
There’s a connection to all of this, Dear Reader. Trillionaires, the rise of socialism in the Democratic Party, persistent social plagues and the dregs of society demanding ever more handouts.
There’s an opportunistic class of second- and third-quintile midwits serving as the intellectual vanguard for an explosion of neo marxism. They convince the bottom quintile that their problems could be solved by simply taking wealth and redistributing it. This vanguard has no actual interest in solving the problems. It’s the problems themselves that give them the opportunity for power.
New York City is no longer an American city. It’s Palestine with more poop on the streets and aggravated assaults on the subway trains.
If you want to clean up crime, it’s simple: arrest and imprison the criminals. You want fewer Islamic radicals on campus? Stop allowing student visas from radical Muslim countries. You want to lower housing costs and increase inventory? Deport 30 million people, revoke 20 million (fraudulent) visas, and give sweeping tax abatements to single-family home developers.
You want fewer stupid college graduates with insurmountable debt? End “free” college entirely.
It’s not the point-one percent driving the woes of the average American. It’s the bottom one percent and the elite midwit class that’s leading them. It’s the self-preservation instincts of mediocre people in the permanent bureaucracy and the midwits who keep them paid and employed all with other people’s money.
Why’s Mississippi surging to the top of the stack when it comes to public school student literacy rates? Teachers unions in Mississippi initially opposed the changes that brought about the explosion of literacy. Too bad the state is “right to work” and unions basically amount to neutered lefty sob circles.
Turns out teaching kids to read doesn’t require a new “ultra-millionaire” tax.
The primary divide in America today is not left or right. It’s takers versus makers. It’s the productive, honest classes in the top four quintiles versus the violent, entitled dregs, the calcified bureaucracy that “provides services,” and the socialist pied pipers leading all of them toward that inexorable hole in the wall.
What that hole in the wall ultimately looks like, well, keep your eyes on NYC.
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Of course.
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