“Elizabeth Warren mockingly called on one of the greatest innovators - and taxpayers - in all human history to pay more in taxes, tweeting, “Lets change a rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.”
“Her target is a guy who will personally pay upwards of $10 billion in taxes in just 2021.
“Elon Musk came to America and risked everything to steer us, the entire world, toward a brighter future.
“This is a guy who is bending history before our very eyes to all of humankind’s benefit by accelerating the global shift to electrify transportation. That is a very big deal. This is the guy who is revolutionizing space travel by delivering a payload into space at 1/10 the cost of NASA. Lowering the cost of getting payloads into space by that order of magnitude will save taxpayers countless billions in the coming decades.
“Elon Musk is delivering on the promise of making space the next frontier, bringing unimaginable benefits to all of humankind.
“How could anyone resort to juvenile name-calling or referring to Elon Musk as a freeloader? He is one of the largest payers of income taxes in the history of the United States and one of the biggest givers of innovation and inspiration in all human history."
“Fly, Elon, fly.”
Despite the terrible Mixed Metaphor, this article makes an important point: