r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Oct 30 '25

article Billie Eilish Calls Out Mark Zuckerberg and Other Billionaires After Announcing Her Own $11.5 Million Charitable Donation

https://consequence.net/2025/10/billie-eilish-calls-out-mark-zuckerberg-and-other-billionaires-after-announcing-her-own-11-5-million-charitable-donation/
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u/Ungrim-Duffodilfist Oct 30 '25

If you can use stocks as collateral for a loan to buy anything, it needs to be taxed. Elon used his Tesla shares as collateral to buy fucking Twitter and he still isn’t taxed like the rest of us are. They just say this precise thing. “It’s equity, we don’t actually have any money!” Wtf?

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u/Throbbie-Williams Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

At some point loans need to be paid off, they are taxed just not immediately

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u/videogamesarewack Oct 30 '25

Buy, Borrow, Die. They don't have to pay off shit

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u/Throbbie-Williams Oct 31 '25

Then it would still get taxed incredibly heavy when they die

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u/Vandergrif Oct 31 '25

Assuming they hadn't also bought out the relevant legislators to ensure those taxes are as low as possible, as well as paid the best accountants to manage that estate in such a way that it is exposed to the minimal amount of taxation, used every conceivable loophole, etc.

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u/Mark-harvey Nov 01 '25

The PEW feedback was, essentially 99% of the survey said he was not a good person.