Brent

It's weird how they snapped on Musk when he started going after the fraud, because there is some fraud to be found here that could narrow it down, but it sounds like he got really scared when he was poking around with the Social Security fraud.

Yeah.

I mean, it's pretty straightforward with the impact of state income taxes like Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts.

They used to be great places.

But when you put state income taxes in, it decimates the incentive to own a business.

And that money doesn't even go towards productive things.

Like look at California.

I think they get like $250 billion a year in state income taxes.

And somehow they're always short of money for highway projects, for homelessness, for health care.

Everybody talks about the California pension system as being the number one

that's most likely to go down.

They're gonna have to get bailed out, which is crazy.

So don't know where all that money goes.

And I mean, Florida only gets 50 billion from the sales tax and like all the cumulative taxes for the state.

And somehow we're cruising along fine with everything that we need.

So I don't know, call me crazy, but maybe some of that money is going towards things that shouldn't go to in California.

Yeah.

The fraud and the deficit spending or what the money actually gets spent on?

California taxes.

Yeah, where are they shelling out those hundreds of billions?