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Elon Musk returned to Twitter to spark more criticism of US Senator Bernie Sanders, who wants millionaires to pay more taxes.
And he did so by offering to continue selling Tesla shares. It all started with what Bernie Sanders tweeted: “We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Full stop “.
On the same social network, he did not have to wait long for an answer. And coming from Elon Musk. “I keep forgetting that he’s still alive,” but then tweeted again: “Do you want me to sell more shares, Bernie? Just say it. “
Messaging between Musk and Sanders
Thus, Elon Musk suggests that he could continue to sell additional Tesla bonds. After a Twitter poll in which his followers asked whether to sell Tesla shares, Elon Musk even went on to sell bonds last week, bringing the total proceeds from the sale of 6.4 million shares to $ 6.9 billion.
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The sale follows a poll by the businessman on Tweeter, in which 58%, or two million subscribers, said Musk should sell 10% of his shares in Tesla.
After this investigation, Musk actually sold the shares. Then the businessman did not say that by August 2022 he had millions of stock options. And in September, he announced that he intends to exercise a “huge block” of those options by the end of 2021.
Tesla shares have had their worst week on the stock exchange since March 2020, when the pandemic crisis pushed the stock to a low. You have to go back to February and March of last year to see the big drops. Tesla depreciated 15.4% last week…
