Washington Wizards star Kyle Kuzma is getting backlashes on Twitter for mocking the ‘Rich Don’t Pay Taxes’ argument. Kyle Kuzma retweeted a story from CNN that said Elon Musk will owe $11 billion in taxes — the largest amount ever for an individual to owe in taxes and then mocked the argument that “the rich don’t pay taxes.”
Top US lawmakers, including Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, have criticised Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk for bragging about paying USD 11 billion in taxes.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz said, “Got it. You don’t like @elonmusk Who else do you want to loot?”
The Republican Senator’s tweet was in response to a post on Twitter by Jayapal, a Democrat, taking a dig at Musk for showing off his tax bill.
“Elon Musk made $36 BILLION in one day, but wants to brag about paying an $11 billion tax bill,” she said in a tweet.
“Oh yeah, he also added more than $270 BILLION in wealth just since the pandemic started,” she said, adding that it was time for the rich to pay their fair share.
Kyle once agreed with Bernie Sanders on taxing Amazon so people were shocked when he mocked the ‘Rich Don’t Pay Taxes’ argument.
With Elon, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the richest person in recorded history would face a tax bill unlike anyone has ever seen before. What Kuzma seemingly failed to understand is that the complaint has always been that the rich don’t pay their fair share.
Writer Anya Overmann helped put that sum into perspective, while also mentioning a ProPublica investigation which found that Musk didn’t pay federal income tax for years.
Accountant Twitter took Kuzma to task for him not really knowing what the hell he is talking about. He should stick to overgrown sweaters.
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