British media: musk and other rich Americans pay far less tax than the middle class

Original title: British media: musk and other American rich pay far less tax than the middle class
China Daily, November 15 (Xinhua) according to the British guardian, recently, musk, an American tycoon, and the head of the United Nations Food Programme fought on social media about whether they should donate money to help people facing famine. Musk believes that his money is used to 'realize human migration to Mars and preserve the light of civilization'. The article points out that in the United States, it is the middle class that maintains the most taxes, not the rich.
Musk has four companies, developing brain computer interfaces, making self driving cars, saving the world in the havoc of artificial intelligence, and planning to migrate to Mars. In short, his work is very heavy. People wonder if he has time to eat, let alone tweet - in fact, musk once said that he spends most of the day in meetings and hardly spends time on twitter. However, newcomers will think that the billionaire lives on twitter. Musk seems to make headlines every other day because of his boring online life, including telling some childish jokes, expressing opinions on digital currency and getting involved in online quarrels.
Musk recently tweeted with World Food Programme (WFP) director David Bisley. Bisley suggested musk, who recently became the richest man in history and the first rich man in history with a value of more than $300 billion, donate money to help the hungry. According to the world food programme, 42 million people are facing famine under the combined action of climate crisis, structural poverty, conflict and epidemic. In an interview with CNN, Beasley called on the top 1% of wealth assets to "stand up immediately" and donate US $6 billion - which is only 0.36% of the total increase in net assets of the world's top 400 billionaires in 2020. Bisley then named Bezos and musk and pointed out that the latter's net assets had increased by $6 billion in one day last week.
It seems reasonable to ask the world's richest man to pay to prevent an impending catastrophic famine. However, musk is very picky about this problem. He said on Twitter: "if the world food program can accurately describe on this twitter how $6 billion will solve the problem of world hunger, I will sell some Tesla shares and make a donation now. (incidentally, he commented and forwarded a satire posted by a fan on twitter, asking why the World Food Programme raised $8.4 billion in 2020 and still did not solve the problem of world hunger). Musk also said that only when the World Food Programme uses "open source accounting to let the public accurately see how money is spent" This sentence clearly expressed his attitude, "of course I will pay to end world hunger, but I don't believe in the World Food Programme".
Musk's excuse for not giving his small fortune to the world food program is very old-fashioned. Billionaires like to regret that they want to pay more taxes, but can't bear to see their money squandered. Therefore, for the good of everyone, the best way is to keep their money in their pockets. In response to the short-lived plan proposed by the Democratic Party to tax billionaires, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink pointed out that he would be happy to give more money if he could ensure that the money was used to its full extent. Billionaire ray Dalio also said that if "higher productivity" could be achieved At the same time, musk hinted that he was helping everyone by not paying more taxes. He said on twitter, "my plan is to use this money to realize human migration to Mars and save the light of the text." a few days later, he secretly warned that the taxes of billionaires would be trickling down. "Eventually they will run out of other people's money and come to you."
Of course, the government works for the welfare of most people. In recent years, the median family in the United States has paid about 14% of federal taxes (excluding state taxes). Billionaires pay only a small part of them. According to propublica's calculation, Musk's "real tax rate" is only a tiny 3.27%. It doesn't matter. He is working hard day and night to "preserve the light of civilization" Millions of people may be on the verge of starvation, and Musk's plan is to let them eat in space!