{"id":3593,"date":"2021-11-07T13:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/07\/senator-behind-billionaires-tax-denounces-elon-musk-twitter-poll-stunt\/"},"modified":"2021-11-07T13:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T12:47:05","slug":"senator-behind-billionaires-tax-denounces-elon-musk-twitter-poll-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/07\/senator-behind-billionaires-tax-denounces-elon-musk-twitter-poll-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator behind billionaires tax denounces Elon Musk Twitter poll stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Tesla owner offers to sell 10% of shares if poll demands<\/li>\n<li>Ron Wyden has proposed tax to help fund Biden plans <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/06\/elon-musk-twitter-followers-sell-tesla-stock-billionaires-tax\">asked his Twitter followers<\/a> to vote on whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, the architect of the proposed billionaires tax that prompted the move dismissed the tweet as a stunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether or not the world\u2019s wealthiest man pays any taxes at all shouldn\u2019t depend on the results of a Twitter poll,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonWyden\/status\/1457110175932846080\">said Ron Wyden<\/a>, an Oregon Democrat and chair of the Senate finance committee. \u201cIt\u2019s time for the billionaires income tax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/07\/senator-ron-wyden-billionaires-tax-elon-musk-twitter-poll-tesla\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/554a5f3d6598775db644b1402cd0a8663469bed1\/0_229_5026_3016\/master\/5026.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f420b869ae8140f8e9101efe3e674084\" title=\"Senator behind billionaires tax denounces Elon Musk Twitter poll stunt\" \/>Tesla owner offers to sell 10% of shares if poll demands<br \/>\nRon Wyden has proposed tax to help fund Biden plans <\/p>\n<p>After Elon Musk asked his Twitter followers to vote on whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, the architect of the proposed billionaires tax that prompted the move dismissed the tweet as a stunt.<br \/>\n\u201cWhether or not the world\u2019s wealthiest man pays any taxes at all shouldn\u2019t depend on the results of a Twitter poll,\u201d said Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and chair of the Senate finance committee. \u201cIt\u2019s time for the billionaires income tax.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla owner offers to sell 10% of shares if poll demands Ron Wyden has proposed tax to help fund Biden plans After Elon Musk asked his Twitter followers to vote on whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, the architect of the proposed billionaires tax that prompted the move dismissed the tweet as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/07\/senator-behind-billionaires-tax-denounces-elon-musk-twitter-poll-stunt\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator behind billionaires tax denounces Elon Musk Twitter poll stunt<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}