He’s a weird duck.
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Nah, he’s a cunt.
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Elon Musk is having lots of Twitter problems. He is going to lose a fortune on that. He is also prone to making ill advised comments, and seems quite volatile in his decision making. He works endless hours and to get through all that, I have heard that he is not a stranger to substance abuse. Now, that is alleged, and I don’t want the forum to get into trouble. ALLEGED.
So with the personality traits he exhibits, and the possible alleged substance abuse, it doesn’t strike me as the wisest of moves to keep loaded guns next to the bed.
I have a horrible feeling that one day we will be talking about the suicide of the flawed genius. I sincerely hope I am way wide of the mark on that.
I may well be wrong, but I personally doubt very much that this is what his bedside table actually looks like.
It should have been captioned - this is what my bedside table looks like when I stage it this way to provoke a reaction on the internet and draw in the attention that my narcissistic personality can’t cope without.
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Weird that the guy has two wildly successful companies, then this:
It was never intended to be a real thing. There is public record of him admitting he did it with no intention to follow through and only wanted to keep it in the minds of people enough to draw attention and support from public transportation projects that he was concerned would draw down government support/funding for personal EVs.
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It’s only money.
Hang the fucking lot of them.
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Aye.
Came in here to post this…
I agree the super wealthy should be taxed more. They benefit from the systems and infrastructure of the societies through which they make their wealth. The systems and infrastructure came about because of the public purse, and they should replenish it for those who will come behind them.
It seems fair.
So, with all that said, has taxing the super wealthy ever been a successful endeavor? I more than agree with the goal, but my assumption (I could be wrong) is that it will be tough to extract the hoped for revenue from multi billionaires who operate in multiple jurisdictions.
Presumably billionaires who don’t want to pay more taxes will have sophisticated schemes, and an army of staff to keep their tax bill as small as possible?
I hope I don’t sound defeatist. I agree with the goal, but I am not hopeful of robust execution by those who are in authority to collect taxes.
Has taxing them ever been tried?
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The super wealthy call the shots and governments are their lackeys. The idea of taxing them more is laughable. Their whole objective is to strip ordinary people of what few assets/money they have and that has never been more apparent than now. The likes of Johnson and Sunak are as expendable as you and me.
Read up on the Bilderberg Group and their long-term objectives…
would require proper investment in the government departments responsible for collecting taxes.
I’d be happy to just take a big part of their money and leave it at that. 
I think no significant taxing of rich people can be implemented unless they agree themselves with the usefulness of being taxed. Your argument about infrastructures is totally right, and might in part be acknowledged by them.
Without appropriate taxes, a state can’t fund the necessary infrastructures, inequality grows stronger and all kinds of problems arise, leading a society towards instability, which isn’t good for business in the end.
But without convincing them that it is in their long-term interest to pay taxes on their earnings, nothing will be done because as you say, they always can avoid taxes by moving to another country which is more tax-friendly for them, or find legal or illegal schemes to avoid being taxed. Let’s not forget that in part, they always control governments as well. So, no government will really go 100% after them and their money.
The only way forward is to convince them, they can’t be forced. 
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Of course. Look at most post-war European countries as a prime example. Until the eighties, rich people were heavily taxed, and everyone found it normal, these rich people included. In many countries, for those enjoying a high income, having to pay 75% taxes wasn’t a rarity at the time. I can remember that a now deceased uncle of mine, who earned a good life as a clinic leader in the Netherlands, payed that kind of taxes at the time.
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And some would say tax evading billionaires are not as bad as gay hating billionaires in the middle east. To me, these are all bastards just in different areas. I never believe billionaires get to where they are without being dodgy or breaking laws or finding loopholes.
In the Netherlands the richest 30% pay 82% of the income tax.
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