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Imagine spending $250m dollars to get deported. It would be awesome if he was sent back to South Africa.
That's a funny way to spell El Salvador.
The rules don't apply to the ultra rich. Even the horrifying rules.
Unfortunately.
TBF, proportionally speaking, it's like me spending $20. I would not expect this amount to make a difference if it were me.
250M is nothing to this prick.
It is very expensive for their pride.
Those billionaires don't actually have the money ready in cash, just a tiny part of that is liquid, everything is in stocks. They are getting paid in stocks from their company. Why? Because until you're selling the stocks, for the government you don't have a revenue to tax. Suppose this year you get a salary of $100 billion in stocks. If you convert in cash only $100k, then the tax owed that year is minuscule. Those assholes have teams dedicated to minimize the amount of taxes owed. It is why he didn't use his money to buy xitter but used his stock and "genius CEO" fame as a collateral to persuade banks and other arab investors to lend the money for him (and hold the bag if it sank)
So in order to donate that quarter of a billion he had to liquidate stocks and pay taxes on that. Ouch, so so much painful for a billionaire. For them paying taxes is like being robbed. So, it's more like paying $20k for you
While you are correct with all that, I would argue it's not like paying half of all I have. Say your 20k is after 33% tax, that'd be 30k before taxes, our of the 50k I did my original math with.
It's be like paying 30$ then, plus the "I'm rich and greedy so it hurts", say 1k of physocological damage... Still a very small portion of what I have.
Hell, just in insurance, I'm paying way more than that every year!
He's Canadian through his mother.
We'd just get stuck with him.
Unless he gets sent to CECOT
He won't be. Too rich and powerful.
I think there's a very low but not zero chance because it really feels like Trump is trying to make Putin's Russia here in the US. When the rich and powerful men start talking shit in Russia, they very quickly end up being not so rich and powerful.
He already said Canada isn't a real country. They have to send him in a real country. They can't deport him in Canada and make Canada the 51st State and start over again.
Where’s that petition to revoke his citizenship at, anyway? Would be a nice elbow to the head.
As others have said: $43 billion. Elon bought Twitter.
Yeah, but he was forced to complete that transaction after he changed his mind.
What about he gets half his money back and goes exactly half the way to South Africa?
Elon is a brilliant businessman. When he was only 12, he started his first business as a bridge troll. Now at…whatever he is, he’s being kicked out of a country he literally bought.
South Africa doesn’t want him.