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> complained

This is disingenuous. ProPublica pointed out that, regardless of the individual transaction, he amassed so much wealth that the .5B in taxes were a drop in the bucket.

PP isn't accusing Musk of cheating the system. They're pointing out that the system is broken.

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No Propublica was being disingenuous. They note his total wealth, then took a snapshot in time of a single year, where he paid $0.5B in tax, ignoring his actual income of $1.5B

It’s like looking at a retiree and saying “you only paid $15,000 in taxes, but you have $1M in assets!!” ignoring that those assets were either already taxed or will be taxed in the future.

It’s really a bad article.