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Those two things already show you how off the rails this character is. 

But he decided to top himself with what he posted about poverty and taxing people like Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.

The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.

We should tax trillionaires out of existence. pic.twitter.com/N05ls8gmB2

— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) December 6, 2025

Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. 

The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich. 

We should tax trillionaires out of existence.

Talarico thinks the government should have the power to tell you how much you can make. So he wants to redistribute Musk's wealth to the government to "help" the poor. 

Elon built his fortune by providing unique and innovative services, including Tesla, Neuralink, and SpaceX. He's contributing something worthwhile to society, unlike Talarico. Musk is employing more than 100,000 people. If you tax him out of existence, not only do you lose those great companies and what they provide, but you put all those people out of work. And many of them are in Talarico's state of Texas. Talarico is running for the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2026. 

Musk's money isn't in cash. But even then, if the government could take the trillion dollars and distribute it, it wouldn't last long. First, the Democrat-run fantasy government that approved of such an idea would waste most of it before it even got to anyone. But even if they distributed it all to the poor, it wouldn't do much for long, since we're already spending more than a trillion plus a year on poverty/welfare programs. And that's not even counting state and local programs. 

Elon has paid more in taxes than anyone in a single year. He's earned what he gets. His being rich isn't why anyone is poor. To accuse Elon Musk of hoarding wealth as Talarico does in the clip is funny. Musk lives in a tiny home. He slept on the floor in the White House complex when he was working on DOGE cuts for the American people, for free. He's perhaps the least interested of any rich person I have ever seen in the trappings of wealth. 

Dems want to penalize success. They would apply this to more of the rich, if they could, exactly the wrong economic thinking, that would harm the economy and stifle growth. After you grab all the wealth of the rich, and that's all gone, after you've bankrupted the rich too, then what? We don't have a shortage of government spending on things; what we have had is a shortage on solving issues instead of perpetuating them to empower the government. 

Talarico, because he's a leftist Democrat, asks the wrong question. The question isn't why poverty exists. It has always existed. The question is, why does success exist, and what can you do to maximize that, not punish it? If you penalize success, you will get less of it. If you allow it to flourish and clear the way to allow it to grow, you will get more of it. It's that simple. 

It's that ability that is built into the ethos of this country, along with individual rights, that has allowed the U.S. to blossom and grow as a society, that has allowed us to be the great innovators, that has made us a power and a light to the rest of the world. 

Great idea:
• Stop Mars exploration
• Stop innovation in clean energy
• Stop global free-speech platforms
• Stop breakthroughs in space, AI, and transport

…so the government can manage the money instead.
What could possibly go wrong?

— Roy Anderson (@AuthorRoyA) December 6, 2025

But Talarico's economic illiteracy is a part of the leftist radicalism that has fully gripped the Democrat Party. 

The radicals are no longer on the fringe — this is who the Democrat Party is.