Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity

Post by Retric » Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 11:28 PM UTC

eadmund wrote: post #339

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Is the company public or organization give charitable stats? If so that puts a different spin on things. If you don’t want any strings, then don’t ask for a handout from the taxpayers.

> If you don’t want any strings, then don’t ask for a handout from the taxpayers. Of course, being tax-exempt is the opposite of a handout from the tax payers : it’s exemption by the tax taker .

Post by 93po » Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC

micromacrofoot wrote: post #323

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You really think the richest man on the planet is doing weird little non-profit loopholes to wield power? You think having $6 billion in his non-profit has any impact whatsoever on his ability to influence things with his money? None of this puts him ahead financially and there is zero benefit to him doing this for "tax avoidance" if his main motive is maintaining as much money (and resulting power) as possible. I fi…

my dude why do you think he bought twitter? had a video of him being boo’d removed? had the guy posting public jet info banned? he’s as thin skinned as any other mortal, the guy offered a flight attendant a horse in exchange for sex every billionaire has a non-profit like this, trump was so stupid he actually used his for real fraud instead of the typical wankery