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Related: Elon Musk is the Hero We Need Today.
Gloriously capitalistic, irreverent and, yeah, a little weird, Elon Musk is an American original in the mold of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs. And someone I hope is a model to the next generation of young innovators — a perfect antidote to faddish neo-socialists like Warren and AOC.
Warren is pushing a wealth tax, believing at least 2 percent per year of a fortune the size of Musk’s should be seized by the government to be spent by her and her colleagues.
But direct wealth confiscation is an economically dangerous move that heralds a regime on its last legs.
They don’t want his money to support the greater good. They just want his money. And everyone else’s.