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Elon is now worth $1 trillion.
But even if Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders confiscated 100% of his wealth, it would only cover the US budget deficit for about 6 months.
Congressional spending is increasing the debt at $2 trillion per year. $40 trillion national debt.
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Elon Musk was born in South Africa but SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink were born in America.
Talent is the seed. Capitalism is the soil. There is no other country on earth that grows it like this.
That's uniquely American 🇺🇸
I guarantee you when @elonmusk looks at his trillion-dollar payday today, he's not thinking, "Wow I can buy a bigger jet or a bigger yacht."
He's thinking, "Wow I can build better rockets!"
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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2021. Elizabeth Warren calls Elon Musk a freeloader and falsely claims that he pays no taxes.
A week later it was revealed that Elon would be paying over $11 billion in taxes for the year.
Meanwhile Warren continues to contribute nothing to society
Spencer Pratt just BROKE The Internet.
He is NOT done in California and he says he has CRIMINAL Evidence that will force Karen Bass or Nithya Raman to resign.
He just declared war on the political establishment of Los Angeles.
Is he about to get his revenge?
Democrats are salivating over @elonmusk becoming the world’s first trillionaire today!
They hate success, freedom, and anyone who builds something without kissing the government’s ring. 🫳🏼🎤
BREAKING:
Spencer Pratt says fire at his office was NOT an accident.
You have to be pretty SICK to use fire against Spencer after what his family has been through.
Someone really wanted to burn the “career-ending evidence’ Spencer referenced.
Someone just PROVED that evidence is REAL.
STFU and SIT DOWN.
You create NOTHING, you build NOTHING and you employ NO ONE!!!
You’ve lived off taxpayers for decades. You’re the problem, Pocahontas…. Not Elon!!!
I'm too spent to offer much of an update, but she's home. She's where she needs to be. There was one final twist, which I will tell you about later. It might be meaningful down the road and it is mingling my relief with a sense of disquiet. But she's home. Thank God.