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Samuel Rodriguez outlines 5 ways Harris-Walz ticket could 'push Latinos to Trump'

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As I said, given inadequate personnel resources to handle the influx, you can only do so much. Seeing the uptick in numbers we needed bipartisan support to hire necessary personnel.
We could tax Musk more, so that he can cover those costs. Say a security person gets a good salary of $100,000/yr, and we hire 5,000 security personnel. That would cost $500M/yr, which is just a drop in a bucket compared to Musk's $200B net worth.
 
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We could tax Musk more, so that he can cover those costs. Say a security person gets a good salary of $100,000/yr, and we hire 5,000 security personnel. That would cost $500M/yr, which is just a drop in a bucket compared to Musk's $200B net worth.
You don't think that kind of tax against one man would be an illegal tax?
 
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You don't think that kind of tax against one man would be an illegal tax?
Haha, it is partially a joke, but yes, that would be an illegal tax if we targeted one man or woman. A better way of putting it, is that we should tax the billionaires such as Musk (the Tesla EV guy) and others at a rate that is fair, but just high enough to allow the government to get enough money to fund security and other functions of our society.
 
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