The Twitterverse has spoken.
Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that he would let Twitter users decide if he should sell 10% of the 170.5 million shares he holds in Tesla , and 58% of the more than 3.5 million voters said"yes."Musk, the company's founder and CEO posted the poll Saturday afternoon which said,"Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock.
A ProPublica investigation in June found Musk paid no federal income taxes in 2018 — and in 2017 he paid only $65,000. "Note, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock," Musk tweeted on Saturday. I'm not picking on Elon Musk.
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