Two weeks ago, the number was $100m. Today it's $200m. That would put him over half a billion to buy the government in just 3 years. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Two weeks ago, the number was $100m. Today it's $200m. That would put him over half a billion to buy the government in just 3 years. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elmo making the case for my tax proposal bsky.app/profile/casc...
A tax on the Forbes 400 of all but $100 million each would raise $6.56 trillion, (Forbes estimate of F400 net worth $6.6 tril. - 400*$100 mil.) This is 17% of total Federal debt, 22% of debt held by the public. Tell this to billionaires who demagogue the debt (2025 edition)
In a market system with vast imbalances of economic power, a rich person's weakest, vaguest, most passing whim will take precedence over even the most life-or-death needs of others. If you're a market utopian but you can't see or acknowledge that, you're not being real. You need the ethics to match.
@teslatakedown.com Money matters but there's a limit to how much can productively be spent, even in a state as big as Texas, in a couple of months. Eventually it becomes counterproductive as people are sick of hearing your message. If Talarico doesn't win, it won't be because of lack of money.
The GOP is awash in cash while the Democratic Party struggles. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘒𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮 www.politico.com/news/2026/07...