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> We should tax Americans $42 billion/year indefinitely and pay much of that money to my company SpaceX.

Sounds like a better use of taxpayer dollars than spending trillions to bomb brown people on the other side of the planet. And it will cost me less personally to fund a trip to Mars than I pay for a trip to Starbucks, so it's quite the bargain.

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Almost no one who advocates for government spending makes it conditional on eliminating other government spending. This would be in addition to the current military spending.

Also, he wants 0.25% of US GDP indefinitely, so ignoring all the complexities of taxes maybe an approximation would be 0.25% of your gross income, every year for the rest of your working life, or like, maybe 10,000 times the the cost of a trip to Starbucks.

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