Did a single person notice any improvements in their daily life thanks to this massive injection of charitable giving?
No. Because it all, 100%, vanished into the bottomless coffers of the most corrupt and useless NGOs on the planet.
America isnt ready for the conversation yet, but a large number of Democrat women in this country should be involuntarily committed so they can get help. Millions at least.
They don’t want Elon Musk to give his trillion to the poor.
They want Elon Musk to give his trillion to them so they can take their cut, split it with their comrades and causes, then look virtuous by throwing to the poor whatever scraps remain.
"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."
Having been lobbied by every health care interest for many years in government, I’m often asked who the biggest Bond villains are in health care. It’s the fake charity tax exempt hospitals raping and pillaging their communities. Hands down, not even close. Even worse than PBMs, the runner up.
This needs to be on a Times Square Billboard! 50% of health care spending is going to hospitals.
The majority of which pay no taxes, and their version of community benefit is:
1. Paying the CEO $30 million
2. Suing patients for unpaid bills that qualify for their
Financial assistance policy
3. Opening up offshore investment funds
4. Sponsoring professional sports teams
5. Closing down less profitable service lines like
labor and delivery units
6. Putting the 340B money into the general fund
7. Lapping up the facility fees
8. Spending more money on administration than patient
care
9. Having zero fear that the IRS will pull their nonprofit
status
There is NO justification for a hospital system to own hospitals across state lines!
The United States Government is a full on grift machine.
Washington has already confiscated trillions from taxpayers.
Then it borrowed trillions more against their children.
Now the national debt is approaching $40 trillion.
Healthcare is still unaffordable.
College is still overpriced.
Housing is still out of reach.
The schools are still failing.
All of these problems are due to government interference.
And the people who produced this disaster now want Elon Musk’s wealth because they swear this next pile of money will finally be spent wisely.
Bullshit.
They already took the money.
They already spent the money.
They already failed.
Stealing another trillion from a man who built companies, factories, satellites, cars, and jobs will not make government competent.
It will only transfer wealth from the people who create it to the people who incinerate it.
@SenSanders@AOC Using Elon as a boogeyman just provides cover for what you really want to do, which is tax anyone making $184,500+ even more. I’m sure you’ll also figure out a way to make sure these same people never see a dime by raising the retirement age and adding means testing.
@altcap@elonmusk@Tesla@SpaceX Stealing from successful people so they can give away free stuff is how these people get elected and then use that position to enrich themselves.
Milton Friedman's greatest regret.
The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.
Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.
Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.
This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.
Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.
“Nonprofit” does a lot of work in healthcare.
It makes people picture charity.
It makes politicians lower their guard.
It makes communities assume the institution is on their side.
But nonprofit is a tax status.
It tells you nothing about CEO pay, real estate holdings, acquisition strategy, debt capacity, or whether the patient with no money still gets sued.
The best trick in American healthcare was making virtue sound like an IRS category.