Billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to pay TSA personnel during the partial government shutdown poses “great legal challenges,” according to the White House.
The world’s richest man recently shared a social media post offering to pay TSA employees amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, which began in mid-February after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on funding the agency. TSA employees are working without pay which has led to staffing shortages and long security lines at airports nationwide.
Just pay your fucking taxes and shut the fuck up. Alternatively, do a shit load more ket and shut the fuck up permanently.
He can’t pay them wages…
But if he wanted to, he could just give them money.
Set up a website with embedded id.me and any TSA agent can get verified and get $X sent to whatever payment method they enter.
For the guy who claims to have personally built PayPal, should be able to knock it out in an afternoon.
Never forget with billionaires:
They all claim to be economic geniuses about making money, but when it’s time to hand out money, suddenly their hands are tied by the letter or spirit of the law and there’s nothing they can do.
Because it’s a lie both times.
But why would Musk want to in the first place? What’s his angle?
I’m thinking his angle is to show that this isn’t really about the money but is actually just an excuse the whitehouse is using to move their private army into airports.
That presumes Musk would oppose it, which doesn’t make much sense.
Ask yourself why he would offer to pay them directly instead of routing that same money through established vehicles like taxes.
Because the reason the TSA isn’t getting paid isn’t because there’s no money…
It’s because the money has to appropriated to the TSA first.
Like, that’s just the basics of how our government works…
He should pay his taxes, the vast majority of his wealth should go to taxes, but that wouldn’t change a single thing about this.
