{"id":137580,"date":"2022-04-01T05:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/musk-claims-spacex-and-tesla-wouldnt-have-flourished-under-them-in-2008"},"modified":"2022-04-01T05:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:23:19","slug":"musk-claims-spacex-and-tesla-wouldnt-have-flourished-under-them-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/musk-claims-spacex-and-tesla-wouldnt-have-flourished-under-them-in-2008","title":{"rendered":"Musk claims SpaceX and Tesla wouldn\u2019t have flourished under them in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musk-claims-spacex-and-tesla-wouldnt-have-flourished-under-them-in-2008.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is at it again on Twitter, this time taking shots at the White House\u2019s plan to impose a \u201cbillionaires\u2019 tax\u201d in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Musk agreed with another tweeter\u2019s statement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1509003338993610764\">by writing<\/a> \u201cSpaceX &amp; Tesla would probably have died,\u201d if there was a similar tax initiative in 2008, as \u201cboth narrowly escaped bankruptcy in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>## Elon Musk could pay an additional $50 billion in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The white house\u2019s billionaire minimum income tax\\.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>@JimPethokoukis Good point. SpaceX &amp; Tesla would probably have died, since both narrowly escaped bankruptcy in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is at it again on Twitter, this time taking shots at the White House\u2019s plan to impose a \u201cbillionaires\u2019 tax\u201d in the U.S. Musk agreed with another tweeter\u2019s statement by writing \u201cSpaceX &amp; Tesla would probably have died,\u201d if there was a similar tax initiative in 2008, as \u201cboth narrowly escaped bankruptcy in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}