Elon Musk paid $1.25M per hour in taxes in 2021
3 Feb 2022 · 0 min
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A short YouTube video (creator: Mike Andes) claims that in 2021 Elon Musk paid nearly $11 billion in taxes. The speaker breaks this down to an hourly rate, saying Musk paid over $1.25 million per hour across the year and frames this as a cost of living ("just to be alive in the United States"). The excerpt is a brief, emphatic statement rather than a detailed tax breakdown.
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Almost $11 billion.
Over $1.25 million per hour.
