Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.
Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”
Think about what property tax actually means.
You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.
Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.
You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.
Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.
The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.
That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.
Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.
Now stack all three.
Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.
At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.
Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.
Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.
The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.
And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.
The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.
SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.
The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.
The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.
The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.
The future belongs to the people who build it.
Kimbal Musk explains United States Government wants to pay $1 billion dollars per rocket launch
SpaceX came along and said no, the price is way lower at only $50 million
US Government pushed back and wanted the cost $1 billion dollars per launch
“Government would say, "But we'll pay you $1 billion. We just want you to do it our way." No, but that's the wrong way. You have to do it this way. It's $50 million. We were very happy with that price. The government was like, "No, we don't want that." And we actually couldn't believe it. We're like, "But you must want it for a lower price." Actually, they didn't care that much about price.”
Basically it works like this
Old defense contractors can spend as much as they want and the government will pay that amount plus 10%. That means they have an incentive to make the launches as expensive as possible
SpaceX said here’s a fixed price of $50 million and if we can do it cheaper then we can keep the extra money
This is a much better incentive system because it saves taxpayers a huge amount of money and SpaceX gets rewarded for making launches cheaper
🚨 NOT THE SAME:
Elon Musk’s companies employ roughly 170,000 hardworking Americans.
AOC and her squad drove Amazon out of New York — killing 40,000 jobs.
One creates.
One destroys.
She’s not only constitutionally illiterate — she’s a full-blown economic moron.
Creators vs. Destroyers.
What do you think? 👇
#ElonMusk #AOC #Jobs #EconomicIdiots #AmericaFirst #BuildNotBurn
Antidepressant use in this country is up almost 400% since the early '90s. We are not 400% happier.
We took grief, loneliness, and a life with no one in it and renamed all of it broken brain chemistry. Tell a man his sorrow is a chemical defect and he stops trying to fix the life that's breaking him. He starts waiting on a molecule.
We had a place for this once. A confessional. A community. A reason to get out of bed. We traded the cure of souls for the management of symptoms, then act surprised the symptoms never end.
The serious illnesses are real, and they need real medicine. But a country can't prescribe its way out of meaninglessness.
We didn't get 400% happier. We got 400% more medicated.
I’m a doctor and I’m convinced there’s a coherent argument that if the entire specialty of Psychiatry DISAPPEARED in the United States, the country would actually have better mental health
People are going to show anger towards a movement that teaches children they might be born in the wrong body, and the solution is to maim and sterilize themselves.
Instead of playing this old game of moral superiority and victimhood, maybe deal with the child abuse hiding behind a rainbow.
@MaryBowdenMD Lucid is losing a lot of money on every car they sell and will probably not stay in business long.
Tesla is the clear winner of all cars of all kinds.
As Elon said long ago “ whoever comes in second place will need a telescope to see us”.
Tesla Model 3 drives through floodwaters in Dubai.
“A Tesla works as a boat for short periods of time, as an electric car has no intake or exhaust to block & battery, motor, electronics are water-sealed. Submarines are just underwater EVs.”
— Elon Musk
Tesla Model 3 drives through floodwaters in Dubai.
“A Tesla works as a boat for short periods of time, as an electric car has no intake or exhaust to block & battery, motor, electronics are water-sealed. Submarines are just underwater EVs.”
— Elon Musk
@SharonFrro@MaryBowdenMD@MaleNurseRN@Tesla Yeah, I understand that they’re harder to put out in the unlikely event that they do catch fire than, but all things weighed, Teslas are much safer.
@SharonFrro@MaryBowdenMD@MaleNurseRN@Tesla I never get tired of waking up to a full “tank of gas” every morning without having to go anywhere. Before I finally got my Tesla I used to think “what a waste of time and money” every time I got gas.