Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Twitter BLOCKS Elon Musk's $43B Buyout w/ "Poison Pill" | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

He's pretty hostile towards anything Left-wing. We all know his random completely unprovoked shitposting at Bernie for simply saying the 1% need to pay higher taxes and then Musk has the nerve to claim he already pays too high of taxes (at around 3.27%)
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@libertybell5796 Claims Elon Musk himself. And for the record his company, Telsa, paid $0 in taxes this year. And even if Musk is giving full disclosure and not just telling us some estimate before exhausting every tax loophole he can exploit, the fact that people making $35,000 or $50,000 end up paying up to 25% in taxes while Musk gets away with whatever much smaller percentage that is towards his income and wealth, is what's actually super fucked up in this scenario. Throw whatever big number you want at people, what matters is the percentage of their income - we all pay our 'share' in some percentage we make, but Musk & billionaires end up with exploiting the system to almost certainly pay a less percentage than all of us.
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@libertybell5796 "Everyone's share should be the exact same amount". Actually, people making millions and above should actually be paying a bigger share otherwise that's what leads to rampant inequality, rampant poverty/child poverty, and generally an unsustainable system like the one we have now. However, despite that, even if we were to agree on "everyone's share should be the same", Elon Musk and ALL billionaire elites don't pay the same share, not even fucking close. It's now known Musk paid $0 in 2018 and for the past several years his taxed income has been 3.27% of his average gross income. Other billionaires are even worse, where many pay closer to 2% or even 1% of their income because they have numerous tax exploits at their disposal like the one Kyle talks about 'buy borrow die', where company shareholders will borrow a bank loan on their shares in their company and this method leaves them paying no taxes at all.
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@libertybell5796 "People who make more pay a higher percentage." You're fucking delusional if you think millionaires and billionaires are paying as much as their secretaries. Warren Buffet literally proved as much a decade ago and income inequality has only gotten exponentially worse since then. The progressive tax system only works up to about people making an income of $250,000 a year, after that, it's a dropoff for people making enough money to use expensive tax exploits that end up saving them hundreds of thousands to billions of dollars in dodged taxes. Are you REALLLYYYY trying to make the argument that tax dodging just doesn't exist today? Not even sure why I'm talking to you if you're this too far gone.
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Mad Max Nah, it could get worse. Twitter could devolve to the level of Facebook
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Nice, so Elon Musk wants to add micro-transactions to Twitter so people will pay him for Blue Checkmarks.
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@aaronhrynyk Clearly made Elon Musk one of the world's biggest douchebags to match his status as world's richest man. Jeff Bezos ain't much better.
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He's not criticizing Musk cause he does it specifically (even though it is a HUGE criticism of the Crony Capitalist system), he's criticizing Musk because he does it and then claims he's already paying 'so much' in taxes. At least billionaires like Warren Buffet admit the tax system is totally fucked & skewed towards the rich.
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@Tmmy22 Kyle does hate the game and consistently talks about it. Musk is the one who makes ridiculous claims that he's already paying too much in taxes when it's proven he uses his huge amounts of wealth & large stakes in his own company to pay a less percentile in taxes than almost everyone in the US above the poverty line (and probably even less than many below the poverty line). On twitter he's consciously set himself up as the poster boy for billionaire man-child meglomaniacs who think they should be paying less in taxes than even the poorest Americans. And even if he wasn't acting like a spoiled smug douchebag on twitter all the time, he's still the richest man in the world, so like it or not, he carries symbolism for the billionaire oligarch class and the 1% in general who consistently get away with tax dodging & even corrupt the political system to write the rules & tax loopholes for themselves.
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@Irish_1916 No, but $40 billion would prevent it until 2030. Being well-fed, imagine how many more people can work towards the goal of ensuring their communities have crops and the ability to become self-sustainable.
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@Irish_1916 I'd love it if the US government spent 1/20th of their military budget towards ending world hunger, however, we already know the US government is corrupt and effectively an oligarchy run by the ultra wealthy - what's Elon Musk's excuse? Even the president doesn't have the executive authority to reroute funds like that without the approval of Congress. We've been hearing about billionaires being a "Good thing" because they spend so much on charity like Mr. phony Bill Gates, then why the fuck is world hunger nowhere near being paid for by these oh so charitable narcissists & megalomaniacs.
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@fabsmaster5309 That very well may have truth in it considering it would require a huge network of delivery systems (something routinely added in with the total cost), however, the larger issue is that people like Musk and others undoubtedly with the kind of money to actually pull it off, don't even try to do so. It's never going to happen if the people with the means to get it done won't even entertain the idea to actually solve one of the world's biggest issues for once (one of the world's biggest issues that doesn't even take much money to solve).
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