The exchange between Lux Capital's Josh Wolfe and Sen. Elizabeth Warren spotlights a live policy clash over whether an ultra-millionaire wealth tax aimed at figures like Elon Musk should bankroll nationwide free community college, or whether the technological and economic output from Musk-led firms already delivers comparable or larger societal returns.
Imagine if we had no SpaceX and Tesla and more community college graduates. What a deal.
If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire tax, we could fully cover free community college in America.
No verified figures yet pin down Musk's precise annual bill under the 2-3% net-worth levy or confirm how much of the projected $6.2 trillion over ten years would actually flow to tuition-free college.
Critics note the proposal would tax unsold stakes in private companies such as SpaceX, leaving valuation swings and liquidity questions unresolved in the current debate.
Many users insulted those endorsing the Musk tax proposal for community college funding as Elon glazers or worse, while some approved the deal as economically productive.
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"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."
@RichardHanania Imagine a world where the richest guy in the world wasn't pushing white replacement conspiracy theories and didn't cut cancer research/ebola/nasa funding through an illegal made up government agency. What a deal.
@RichardHanania Where does the money from for community colleges then you low IQ idiot?
You build Tesla and SpaceX and then have the government seize it? WOW. What a brilliant idea you government simp.
@idksmgdh @RichardHanania White replacement is real. You can actually see it. The data exists.
If you're lying about it, you're being subversive. You want the replacement. Just say that
@RichardHanania unsure if great satire or unadulterated retardation
Serious question: What would benefit the US more? Tax Musk $100B and give it to community colleges or Learing centers, or give Musk an extra $100B and tell him to invest it in the most extreme products and services he can imagine. Which would land the US in the better position in 5 years? 10 years?
@RichardHanania also i have never even heard of a poor person being unable to afford community college
i have heard about the culture at cc being so toxic that it ruined people’s life though
A better reason to hate Elon Musk is here. https://www.richardhanania.com/p/liberals-only-censor-musk-seeks-to
@RichardHanania The ONLY reason for colleges… is to try to find the next Elon Musk.
@RichardHanania It would be cool if we could just buy better/cheaper Chinese EVs instead of prop up this fake businessman.
There is zero evidence that Tesla wouldnt exist if Elon paid more in taxes. But you want to know what's funny? Without government subsidies and grants, Tesla would have gone bankrupt. Imagine that.
Elon himself said they were mere weeks from bankruptcy during production ramp. Without millions in loans, grants, and subsidies, they would have been toast.
@idksmgdh @RichardHanania Imagine not being a mind-controlled propagandist.
@RichardHanania You act as if this is a reductio ad absurdum, but it is plainly not. A generation of debt-free college graduates with skills to read/write/math/code would be a tremendous boon to society. You misplaced your anger at the Ivies onto community colleges, oddly.
@idksmgdh @RichardHanania Ignore content. Attack the person.
Just as you’ve been programmed.
@JuanTabeer @RichardHanania bro your profile pic is literally cattle. the jokes just write themselves
@MarkItWidaB @RichardHanania ah you got me
but what i’m saying is that people feel stuck there and it sometimes takes them upwards of a decade get through it
@RichardHanania Agreed. 👍
@RichardHanania @kale_abe Imagine thinking college was the only way to be successful. Most of the people that want free community college didn’t pay attention to a single thing in high school. Now they want free college?
@Jwf1776 @kendouhua @RichardHanania How does Tesla do in China, @grok?
@RichardHanania If we had no SpaceX and Tesla, there would be less sexual harassment lawsuits against Elon Musk and less dead people who crashed in his death trap cars. Also Elon Musk would be less influential and less wealth, and thus less able to spread his particularly vile racist propaganda.
