Corporate Welfare Kings: How Billionaires Scam America While You Foot the Bill
Elon pays nothing, Tesla rakes in billions, and the IRS will still kick down your door over $20. Welcome to the land of the free (for the rich) and the home of the screwed.
Title: Corporate Welfare Kings: How Billionaires Scam America While You Foot the Bill
Subtitle: Elon pays nothing, Tesla rakes in billions, and the IRS will still kick down your door over $20. Welcome to the land of the free (for the rich) and the home of the screwed.
Welcome to the Greatest Heist in American History
Ah yes, the American dream—where a schoolteacher making $50K a year pays a higher tax rate than a billionaire space troll who sells exploding cars and runs his companies like a cult. Tesla raked in $2.3 BILLION in profits last year and somehow contributed $0 to the roads, schools, and infrastructure its cars literally drive on. (Source: CNBC)
Meanwhile, if you forget to Venmo your buddy $20 and don’t report it to the IRS, they’ll be at your door with a battering ram. That’s the system we’re living under: one where billionaires suck the country dry while working-class people are told to “tighten their belts” and “just work harder.”
Trickle-Down Economics? More Like a Golden Shower
The myth of trickle-down economics is the greatest scam ever pulled on the American people—right up there with MLMs, essential oils, and believing Congress will ever fix itself. The idea that giving billionaires tax breaks will somehow “create jobs” and “boost the economy” has been disproven more times than a flat-Earther convention. (Source: Center for American Progress)
Yet here we are, watching Tesla, Amazon, and countless other corporations rake in billions while paying zero in federal taxes. Why? Because they’ve rigged the system, bought off politicians, and convinced half the country that taxing the ultra-wealthy is “socialism.” Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is out here cosplaying as a Bond villain while working-class folks are drowning in medical debt.
Billionaires Don’t Work, They Leech
Let’s get one thing straight: billionaires don’t “work” for their money. They extract it. They exploit loopholes, offshore their profits, and hoard wealth like a dragon sitting on a mountain of gold. Their wealth grows exponentially because they own assets—stocks, real estate, and entire industries—while the average person’s wages stagnate like a clogged toilet. (Source: ProPublica)
Elon Musk, for example, has made more money from government subsidies and stock manipulation than from actual business success. Tesla’s entire existence was propped up by $4.9 billion in government funding. (Source: LA Times)
Yet somehow, your uncle on Facebook still thinks Musk is a "self-made genius" while screaming that poor people need to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.”
Your Taxes Fund Their Yacht Lifestyle
Corporate welfare is the real American tradition. The government hands out trillions in subsidies, tax breaks, and bailouts to corporations, while the average American gets pennies. The richest 1% dodge $163 billion in taxes every year. (Source: U.S. Treasury)
Meanwhile, tell a Republican that maybe—just maybe—the government should spend money on education, healthcare, or infrastructure, and suddenly it’s “fiscal responsibility” time. But when billionaires want another bailout? No problem, here’s a blank check.
The System is Rigged—And You’re Paying the Bill
Every time you see potholes, overcrowded classrooms, or hospitals closing, remember: it’s not because “there’s no money.” It’s because billionaires stole it. The richest in this country pay zero in taxes while the middle class is forced to carry the entire damn economy on its back. (Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
They have convinced you that taxing the rich would “hurt the economy” when in reality, they are the ones looting it.
No One’s Coming to Save Us—So What Do We Do?
We fight back by demanding tax reform that actually makes the wealthy pay their fair share. We call out politicians who sell us out for corporate donations. We stop buying into the myth that billionaires are anything more than parasites bleeding society dry.
Because if we don’t? Then get ready for more of the same: billionaires laughing all the way to the bank, while the rest of us drown in debt, crumbling infrastructure, and a system designed to keep us struggling.
And that’s not a bug in the system—it’s the whole damn point.