Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave

Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• hroderic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  "It’s impossible to operate in San Francisco, they expect you to pay your rent "

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  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.

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      • NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)

        “But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”

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    • 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As of 2020, all of his companies had received around 5 billion in subsidies, tax credits, and the like.

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      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah that’s what we call corporate welfare. What exactly did that 5 billion buy anybody? All it did was make that fucking asshole richer.

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• vxx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He wants to turn twitter into Wechat, which is used for paying basically everything in China. In San Francisco you can’t just get rich by funneling money, you have to pay taxes on it.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    debt fair share, you mean. His billions of debt that have about a billion of interest per year is another story

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