Kind reminder that JB Pritzker (net worth $3.7 billion) is the same guy that bought a second multi-million dollar mansion next to his existing one, then had a contractor remove all the toilets / kitchen fixtures so the home could be classified as “uninhabitable” or “vacant” for property tax purposes.
A 2018 Cook County Inspector General report called it a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers. It noted the toilets were removed shortly before affidavits were submitted claiming the property had no functioning bathrooms or kitchen.
The irony of this privileged tax cheat creating a "privilege tax" on Bitcoin is truly incredible.
This is approximately a million times worse than Epstein. It’s not even remotely close. The scale. The nature of the crimes. The powerful institutions implicated. And yet something tells me that many of the Epstein obsessives will have nothing at all to say about this.
you and your colleagues control a $7 trillion dollar federal budget. so why haven't you done all those things you think can be done with 1/23rd the money?
either
a) you can't solve those problems with money or
b) you are the worst capital allocator in world history
which is it?
If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.
The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.
And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.
Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.
History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.
And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.
You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
This aged horrifically.
California politicians dunked on Elon and helped drive out SpaceX, Tesla jobs, engineers, suppliers, and the tax base.
Now SpaceX is headed for a $1.75T IPO.
“Message received” may be the most expensive political own-goal in California history.
No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
The enthusiastic gloating over a the loss of a candidate whose entire campaign was simply to clean up his hometown is one the most disgusting displays of arrogance and ugliness I’ve ever seen in my life.
This is nothing short of political bullying. It’s abhorrent and it is increasingly why the ideal of American politics being of the people and for the people is being supplanted by professional grifters and communist activists.
Absolutely disgusted.
🚨 This is a prime example of fraud and waste inside California's homeless industrial complex
California bought this hotel for $8 million in 2020 and now wants $20 million to fix it. That is $625,000 per homeless person.
6 years later and NOTHING to show.
EXPOSE IT ALL.
I immediately knew it was in Pakistan and not in France because European countries would never sentence Pakistanis to death for gang raping a European woman in front of her children.
The media blasted negative headlines against Donald Trump for saying we need to rake out National Forests, Trump was right
American Citizen shows you how horrible of a job our tax payer funded National Park Service does at Forest Management
“We've got all the money in the world to send bombs to go over and kill people that have never done anything to us. But here back at home, we can't lift a finger.
… But you bet we're paying them. You bet we're paying them.”
There is real data to support this
National Park Service has a $23+ billion deferred maintenance backlogs, the largest among federal land agencies
Chronic under-maintenance and funding priorities contribute to poor forest health and increased wildfire risk
It’s causing massive problem, there is data for this too
Large wildfires have increased dramatically. Since the 1970s–2010s area burned by large forest fires rose over 1,200% in the West
Our taxes clearly aren’t being used correctly
This is:
Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor:
@StephenM: “What we’ve found since President Trump took office is that Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of billions — ultimately trillions — of dollars to migrants in our country, effectively with the sole intent of overthrowing the Constitutional Republic of the United States.”
A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.