Democrats On Elon Musk: Begrudgery
The Irish have a word for Friday’s leftist meltdown over Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire:
Begrudgery.
It may be the ugliest of human emotions.
The man who brought connectivity to every corner of the earth with Starlink, who can land rockets between two chopsticks, who developed self-driving cars and a brain chip that allows paralyzed people to communicate by thought with Neurolink, who rescued stranded astronauts from the Space Station, who brought us safe and secure online purchasing with PayPal and who paid $11 billion in US taxes in a single year - 2021 - is being reviled for his success.
Musk wasn’t born rich. He earned every penny.
Elon Musk is today’s Thomas Edison. But Bernie Sanders, AOC and Elizabeth Warren don’t care.
Politicians who have become millionaires with our taxes are pissed off at a man who got rich by building things that people actually want. Think about it.
Musk’s net worth is one trillion dollars. And, like mobsters, they want a taste so they can fund more Somali fraud, or provide more free housing to illegals.
Well, on Friday Elon Musk also created 4,400 millionaires. Regular people who worked at SpaceX and had shares in the company. Janitors, clerks, cafeteria workers, engineers. Many are now worth more than $100 million. All rich because they believed in Musk’s company, which was their company, too.
By contrast, Bernie Sanders has created exactly one millionaire: himself.
AOC created one as well: herself.
Elizabeth Warren, who pretended to be a Native American to snag a plum teaching job at Harvard: ditto.
Every dollar Musk has earned is traceable. He’s had plenty of setbacks on his way to trillionaire status.
I’m more concerned about politicians who go from rags to riches once they hit Washington, producing nothing. They’re living large, flying on private jets, using inside information to trade stocks on OUR dime.
Liz Warren wants to pass a law confiscating 5% of Elon Musk’s wealth to pay for corrupt social programs. She’s a zero-sum moron who seems to believe that Musk robbed the rest of us to get where he is today. That’s nonsense.
News flash, Liz: Any law that appears to target a single person is unconstitutional. That’s called a bill of attainder, Article 1, Section 9 prohibits such punitive measures.
That isn’t their money, or our money it’s Musk’s. He earned it by taking enormous risks and by making his employees his partners. Any government contracts he won by being the lowest bidder and by providing the government with products it needs. Oh, and those tax credits that boosted electric vehicle sales? When they went away, Tesla sales soared. Because Musk makes the best EVs.
Beyond that, Musk isn’t sitting on a pile of money. His money is tied up in his companies. Force him to write huge tax checks and he’d have to liquidate some of his holdings, throwing workers out of their jobs and hurting ordinary Americans who are invested in the stock market.
They don’t care. The left never thinks things through. To them, unemployed ordinary workers would be collateral damage. Stock losses wouldn’t matter, either. What they really despise is success.
Instead of cheering for an entrepreneur who’s getting rich, the begrudgers in Washington want to snuff him out, crush his spirit, confiscae the fruits of HIS labor.
Most politicians know nothing about wealth creation. Musk does.
