Thread: Hertz order for 100,000 EVs sends Tesla shares to $1 trillion

Originally Posted by sabang

I'm glad he's rich. But can't he pay as much tax as his secretary? His fellow space cowboy Bezos is no different. It just seems morally wrong to me, and thoroughly undemocratic.

As soon as he sells shares, he will have to pay taxes on the gains. There may be years when he pays nothing, in other years it will be a lot.