The CEO of Tesla Elon Musk entered the Spat with Bernie Sanders on Sunday after the US senator demanded that rich people pay their “fair share”.
“We must demand that it is very rich to pay their shares fair.
Period,” Sanders wrote on Twitter.
Taking Jibe on the 80-year-old Senator, Musk responded by saying “I kept forgetting that you were still alive.” The Billionaire CEO has lowered the shares worth $ 6.9 billion in an electric car company on November 12, further writing, “I want to sell more shares, Bernie? Just say.” Tweet Sanders came in the middle of the background of Washington’s efforts to climb a tax for very rich people.
Democrats of the US Senate have launched a proposal for billionaire stock taxes and other traded assets to help finance the agenda of President Joe Biden’s social expenditure agenda and close the gap that has enabled them to delay the tax increase in capital without limits.
A week ago, Musk Tweeted that he would sell 10% of his shares if users of the social media platform support the move.
About 57.9% of people choose stock sales.