More Makers, Less Takers! Why The World Needs More Elon Musks and Fewer Elizabeth Warrens

The world is filled with makers and takers, like Elon Musk and Elizabeth Warren.
----
To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe
----
Makers create. Some get rich, like Elon Musk. He creates cool things like Tesla cars and Starlink satellites, that let poor people access the internet.
Then there are takers. They are often politicians, like Senator Elizabeth Warren. They grab other people’s wealth.
Our world needs fewer Elizabeth Warrens and more Elon Musks.

[@leewilliams5341]

Thank you for calling out Elizabeth Warren. She represents all that is wrong with politicians.

[@thierrylandrieu7441]

She has no project , just an agenda

[@hoghopper]

And ultimately where does her political funding come from?

[@calebbearup4282]

She represents all that is wrong with humanity

[@Red_Four]

She represents politicians. Minus a very select few that I can count on one hand, I know of no politician that has good qualities.

[@alexmaccity]

So does mconnel and that wussy from texas with the eye patch, abbot, that creepy fuckin mormon, liz cheney, uh bunch of others.

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

Bernie Sanders has never had a job outside of government!

[@hakeemfrancis1099]

Probably because he’s relaxing in one of his multiple mansions.

[@EF-69]

He's such a scumbag. In his early political days he campaigned as a tax fighter. He's just an opportunist. Alan Keyes ran as a right wing Republican for President. Then he ran as a left wing Democrat for Senate. All these politicians flat suck.

[@winstonsyme5899]

Wasn’t he kicked out of a commune for refusing to work?

[@two-wolvesfeeding2165]

Yes. From the book; "We Are As Gods." by Kate Daloz.@@winstonsyme5899

[@kommisar.]

He has actually; he just could never keep them.

[@naughtywizard]

“Lowering costs is never a problem, because they are spending other people’s money.” 💯💯

[@matinale]

Jamaal Bowman is my Congressman. I'm embarrassed. People in Massachusetts should be embarrassed about Senator Elizabeth Warren.

[@GabrielWJensen]

I'm sure you donated and campaigned for him.

[@fermiticus4034]

Not one single person in our government is in a position to call anyone else "greedy".

[@MrTrailerman2]

Agreed. Politicians do not produce anything but laws and regulations that are designed to kill progress and innovation.

[@andrewthomas695]

The politicians of the day are merely a reflection of the people of the day. They are a mirror onto who we are.

[@abcdef-ms9mb]

truth

[@freedomrings1420]

TRUMP employs thousands of people from every race and the politicians call him a racist.

[@RealMTBAddict]

How can they be greedy when they just print their own money?

[@TheKlamminator]

Politicians never pay their "fair share"

[@MikeJones-rk1un]

Except Hunter Biden. He pays nothing.

[@edb3877]

Well, isn't that correct? After all, they never GIVE their fair share of effort to anything worthwhile.

[@MonteVanNortwick]

our world needs fewer Elizabeth Warrens...well said.

[@ChristopherRyans]

John Stossel is a American hero and legend. Where would this country be without independent journalists like him?

[@brucewilliamsstudio4932]

John is one of a kind. I hope that he continues to do this kind of content. He is an icon of everything that was (past tense on purpose) great about America. I don't always agree with him, but he presents his positions with facts and conviction.

[@kingofthorns203]

And he's still doing amazing work at 76. I hope he keeps working another 20 years.

[@swingman50]

That's why he's not on 60 minutes.

[@georgelstuart]

There are so few real journalists left... so many propagandists

[@-whackd]

Real ones get put in prison like Assange

[@sbag11]

Quit calling it greed! It is NOT greed to want to keep what you earn. Greed is wanting to take what belongs to someone else.

[@coreyshapiro2440]

Even if you think Elon is great, do you really think he deserves around 24,000 times as much as the average household? I think it is misleading to assume that every cent that someone receives from business/the free market is earned.

[@sbag11]

@@coreyshapiro2440 I may agree with you, depending on what you mean by *deserves" and "earn". Please explain.

[@untouchable360x]

Yes. He created millions of jobs, innovated and will leave a space travel legacy.

[@g.t.richardson6311]

@@coreyshapiro2440 it is not necessary that you understand why he is paid that much, since it is not your money.

[@aliensoup2420]

Greed is simply wanting more for having sake, out of no need or purpose. Billionaires like Musk and Jobs don't care about the money for themselves - they only need it to implement their projects. They have to possess and control their money (capital) to control their projects. The government would never create personal computers, iPhones, Pixar, Teslas, reusable rockets, or satellite constellations. The government only creates poverty.

[@ryanhurt7738]

We need more elons but also more Stossels! Thanks John for all you do!

[@user-hj2up6qm1d]

We need more small businesses. Government can help by breaking up large monopolies like amazon. amazon has a chokehold on small business.

[@StomachPlug]

Why haha? This is baby's first propaganda video. 😆 For starters during the entire duration of the video John talks down to you in the tone and vernacular capacity expected of speaking to an 8 year old. Not exactly informative nor respectful of the audience. Secondly, the whole _"makers"_ and _"takers"_ thing is so vapidly simplistic in presentation, and the villainization of the very concept of regulation is bafflingly stupid. The majority of regulations came into specifically because corporations were performing anticompetitive practices and proved themselves a willing danger to consumers. The video continues to spiral down later on when John says that Elon Musk is using his own money to help paralyzed people, framing it as if he's doing this out of the kindness of his heart and not blatantly using this opportunity as a stepping stone to create brain-tech interfaces for the general public, because; _as a businessman,_ that is clearly the end goal. It somehow gets even dumber than _that_ though, because immediately following this ridiculous segment John goes on to cartoonishly call Elizabeth Warren a villain for doing her job. Thirdly, there's an obscene amount of manipulative editing where words are laser cut to form a half-second clip taken completely out of context to backup fabrications, things that become excruciatingly obvious if you are even remotely aware of the situations at hand. It's a very intentional mixture of omission and misinformation designed solely to mislead you and play into your preconceived notions. For example: • No explanation for why Elon Musk suddenly had to lay $12 billion in taxes. Just mentioned and then dropped, leaving the viewer to question it briefly before jumping on. • Ignoring that SpaceX has received over $15 billion in direct funding from the US government since 2003, and that both SpaceX and Tesla have only survived crashing completely _multiple times_ thanks to government subsidies. For some reason this is not worth bringing up when you're too busy fluffing. • NASA's budget has been less than 1/5th of what it was during the Space Race for a quarter century, and 1/8th of it for the past decade, and yet John suggests that the lack of recent effort to launch on NASA's is due entirely to the bungling of vapid, unthinking government drones. _Imagine congratulating a dolt's cheap political take on the very entity that pioneered multiple industries and creates the seed for the tech industry to blossom in the first place while pretending to appreciate ingenuity and scientific achievement._ • NASA had been prototyping reusable rockets since at least the X-33 in 2001; _over a decade before SpaceX got their's working,_ but deemed them unviable because NASA was doing too many launches per year to make collecting the depleted rockets and refueling them for the next one a feasible situation. • StarLink having so many satellites is treated solely as a positive when in reality it has contributed so greatly to overcrowding low Earth orbit that collisional cascading; _a situation wherein space debris collides with each other and plummets to Earth with the impact of a military bombing run,_ is no longer merely a discussion of theory but rather an active threat that will only increase with time as more satellites are haphazardly sent out into space. • Elizabeth Warren's call for the SEC to make an investigation into Elon Musk-Tesla-Twitter/X is touted as _"ridiculous"_ solely on the basis that Tesla is a popular brand, completely ignoring that her request points out that: - - Musk diverted Tesla's financial resources to rebuilding Twitter/X - - Musk transitioned a number of Tesla employees to Twitter/X - - there is a clear conflict of interest in Twitter/X advertising Tesla over other car brands All of these things violate various laws and fair business standards, and moving the sheer amount kf money and manpower over to Twitter/X is _very clearly_ a lessening of total potential returns for Tesla shareholders, which is a perfectly valid criticism to bring up. Overall this video is insufficient at being anything beyond a propagandistic fluff piece for people that; frankly, aren't half so intelligent as they think themselves to be. The positive comments are all incredibly vapid lowest common denominator wankery, and honestly I would be surprised if even half of them aren't bots. I'll explore the channel for a bit to see if it provides anything of actual value, but if it turns out that this is the degree of slop that it regularly serves up then it's genuinely pathetic.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Yes indeed.

[@johncecere2692]

@@user-hj2up6qm1d This almost seems counter-productive. Companies like Amazon got that big through government lobbying. I would say nipping it in the bud would be more productive than applying more government to solve the problem.

[@annm.7176]

Elon is a great man and a great patriot trying to help us save our constitutional way of life

[@tommyboym6563]

It’s funny how most people who say “you should pay your fair share” will never define what they consider to the a “fair” share!

[@matthewk87]

It is an arbitrary sliding scale determined by the speaker's own greed and envy of the target's possessions. Often it is a term used in conjunction with some desired program, the funding of which could not be paid for a year by seizing all the target's wealth.

[@tommyboym6563]

@@matthewk87 yeah. Take all of Elons wealth and you could fund the government for 10 days. Politicians already have too much spending power. 535 in Congress spend $7T a year. That’s $13B per senator/representative per year. I wish I had a job where I got to spend $13B of someone else’s money every year! I guess I could, I’d just have to lie and make false promises and raise money from friends to fund my campaign, I’ll who I promise those friends to make sure some of that $13B will buy services from them, that way they will front me.

[@sharonsomers]

I think in their dreams, everyone would hand over their entire pay to the gov, and we would in turn be given a very small portion back to survive on. That is their dream and goal.

[@coolsambo60]

It's easy! "Fair" is n+1, where is "n" is the amount you already pay. Then rinse and repeat.

[@tommyboym6563]

@@sharonsomers sounds great. As long as I get to be the government!

[@Davidrcobb]

The world needs more John Stossels as well.

[@familychristiancenter3919]

It’s great to see true “Journalists” are still around. Mr. Stossel, please school ABC, NBC, and CBS “Journalists “ on how to be a true Journalist!!! Thank you so much for reporting on this!!!

[@scottduthie2912]

I get hope when I see the success of people like John Stossel

[@deanberdon2572]

Pocahontas needs to go away.

[@TheCanalZone]

* Fauxchahontas

[@muddogtracker7449]

​@@TheCanalZoneCan you imagine what would have happened to a conservative, if they had claimed to be a Native American for decades. And had received all the gov. and scholastic perks that SHE got for falsifying her heritage.... They would have gotten prison time for it.....

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

LieAwatha Fauxahontas makes for the perfect stereotypical Marxist Democrat. They are domestic enemy #1 in the USA.

[@adamwelch4336]

Not less Elizabeth Warren no Elizabeth Warren! 😂🎉

[@heavyd777]

America is great because of its people, not because of its government. Entrepreneurs have improved our lives, not politicians.

[@nevadacario2000]

It depends on the entrepreneurs most are not good and hate freedom.

[@arturoalvarezkawai6773]

How can anyone in the world still believe that politicians have an answer to anything, is beyond my comprehension.

[@bluestorm9651]

Yeah. CEOs love us.

[@Wolf-oc6tx]

While Trump has answers for some big issues but, he actually listens to people who understand said issues and the situation seems more like a bunch of people(in this case politicians and activists) offering different things as answers and most of them being dead wrong. One doesn't even have to assume ill intent(even though its obvious certain people like for example, Joe Biden have ill intent) to see this.

[@arturoalvarezkawai6773]

@@bluestorm9651 Maybe they do, maybe they don't. That's irrelevant, however. We don't need their love, nor should we expect it. All we need from companies (and their CEO's) is the products and services for which we pay. Politicians, on the other hand, take our money, even from people who didn't vote for them, and they give back ... what? Most of the time, nothing we couldn't have procured for ourselves, either individually or socially.

[@arturoalvarezkawai6773]

@@Wolf-oc6tx While I do agree that Trump is not the devil media tried to make us believe for almost 10 years now, as president he would be just another politician, and you should never trust a politician. Some will be the worst, some not that much, but in the end, problems are solved by regular people who want to make life better, either because they selfishly want to get rid of their own struggles, because they want to make money, or, in some exceptional cases, because they are truly good people. As long as politicians get out of their way, these individuals may solve those problems.

[@ronja6791]

@@bluestorm9651 Big business and all business has an agenda: to make a profit. At least with private businesses (CEOs) we have the choice to give them our money or not for products we WANT, not to support initiatives we're against.

[@jeffpadilla9891]

The world will be a better place when these old democrats get out of office.

[@andrewthomas695]

I think it would take way more than that! The true problem with the world can often be found in the mirror. Particularly for those who use 'politicians' as scape goats for their shallow society.

[@MegumiZero]

To make way for new Democrats!? No way! Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

[@beltsandedman]

It will be better when both Democrats AND Republicans are BOTH voted out of office.

[@thorin1045]

how? they will be casually replaced with the next in line of the infinite line of leeches.

[@TheSimba86]

Yeah because AOC is such genius

[@bridgetnephew4171]

Thank You, John Stossel, you could sit back and enjoy your riches. Instead YOU dig and dig and help educate us with facts. Truly appreciate that You are not lazy nor have given up. Thank You 💕

[@rondail5675]

Thank you Elon Musk!!!

[@paulrevere5197]

Amazing how many people fall for people like Lizzy Warren, those poor souls are helping to bring America to it's knees...

[@RealMTBAddict]

ITS

[@TheSimba86]

we already are at our knees, people can't afford to live

[@WayneLynch69]

EVERY Democrat vote is purchased with tax-payer's money: government "jobs"--1:4 Biden jobs is government/TWICE remuneration of same private jobs. government funded/protected unions--Biden just paid off TEAMSTER'S pension Welfares--LBJ's infamous, "we'll have the ns voting Dim for 100 years" Injury lawyers--largest non-union contributor/ONLY U.S. doesn't have "loser-pays" Eco-scammers--nuclear/LNG/domestic oil(17 largest tankers expel more CO2 than ALL autos)... Student loan-defaulters--SCOTUS ruled in Nov. Biden couldn't eliminate debt...he blows them off ....People don't fall for Dim grifters; they are bought by them

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

middle age middle class white suburban housewives.. "the view" fanbase.. thats who put people like warren in government.

[@RealMTBAddict]

@@TheSimba86 Plenty of people can. Have you been to any city in USA?

[@TheNewCarryTrade]

The worst part is the Warrens and Sanders out there have convinced young people that socialism is a good thing. My wife's family had to flee socialism and legally immigrated here.

[@joriankell1983]

You can't run from your problems. You foreigners brought them with you.

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

I think even the average person knows that the government lockdowns were a sneak preview of what socialism would be like. No rights, minimal government "help", and constant assurances that everything is going well.

[@mr3745]

You're confusing spending on social programs with socialism.

[@joriankell1983]

@@mr3745 that's literally what the core of socialism is; those programs are the mechanism of wealth redistribution. So that's a straight up lie and a stupid argument.

[@cjplay2]

@@mr3745 agreed. Socialism is the governmental ownership of industry. After seeing healthcare go private, I see why socialism works. Any industry based on recidivism (aka make the problem occur repeatedly) is bound to have bad actors forcing it to happen again. Prisons in the US are not interested in true rehabilitation. Healthcare does not treat root causes, only symptoms. Many foods do not fill you up, and can make you hungry faster. Appliances are SUPPOSED to break down. Car Repair places want your car to fail regularly.

[@jimharris8597]

Thank god for the Makers and get these Takers out of Political Office.

[@lati_da]

What we need to do is end taxes all together and put term limits on politicians

[@zeehero7280]

Or at least the higher the taxes the shorter the term length and limits get- to the point of removal from office if it gets too high, cuz they run into negative time.

[@aliensoup2420]

Both require a Constitutional Amendment and 2/3 majority vote. We have to vote them all out first, and elect honest representatives. Good luck.

[@rad9372]

Good video. Warren is a monster. Ironic that she talks about greed. People like her make the world worse in every way.

[@w.s8676]

You are absolutely correct

[@anonemous4529]

Don't forget she complained about the cost of college whole getting paid 300,000 to teach one class.

[@ian3580]

Elon is a monster too....but I guess as long as he's a 'maker' we don't care if he's a Nazi or racist or anti America....as long as he's a good Capitalist it's all ok.

[@myronchamberlain7734]

She also said that she was a Indian

[@ian3580]

​@@myronchamberlain7734 She does have Native American ancestry, by DNA. A lot of people with less connection from a genealogy or actual connection standpoint have made this claim. Warren also said that "I am not a person of color; I am not a citizen of a tribe" and "Tribal citizenship is very different than ancestry. Tribes and only tribes determine tribal citizenship."

[@Deontjie]

The only measurement of a politician's success is re-election. They will do anything, say anything, to stay on that gravy train. Except apologize when they are proven wrong.

[@andrewthomas695]

Too easy to blame 'politicians'. The sad reality is, if a politician told us what we needed to hear, we'd vote for the other guy. Entitlement runs rife through our society, and we have precisely the politicians we deserve.

[@abcdef-ms9mb]

​@andrewthomas695 One big flaw with democracy is that everyone has a vote, but few people understand what they're voting for. Obviously the politicians who tell you what you want to hear, regardless of how wrong it actually is, will take the spotlight.

[@NoelFallstrom]

If politicians are able to get reelected by promising to take more from the rich is that a problem with the politician or the voter? A few politicians change their message depending who they are speaking to. However, most politicians are very open and up front with their goals. Their behavior while in office actually matches what they campaigned on. When it comes to re-election we have a track record to look at. We do always have candidates who run against the incumbents, who aren't wealthy and who don't want a career in politics. We still elect the incumbent. Therefore it is not the fault of the politician. They just represent what the people want.

[@onieyoh9478]

@abcdef-ms9mb That's exactly why voting should be done away with. Literally puting every citizens name in a hat and randomly drawing names for positions would yield better results.

[@MikeJones-rk1un]

Lobbyists at their door the day after election with bags of money to buy them.

[@godwinmanuel6963]

Thank you John Stossel for another excellent video exposing politicians for punishing innovation and success.

[@SM-dv6wi]

This is great, politicians need to be called out on this every day!

[@johnroberts3824]

I live in a rural area where only satellite internet is available. Have to say, Starlink blows away all the others. I'm grateful for it.

[@TheHamburgler123]

My buddy has a ranch in northeast Texas. Due to the geography of his ranch, he used to only have access to a god-awful cell service internet plan. You could barely get above 3mbps. Now he has Starlink with 100+ mbps service. It's an absolute game changer for someone who runs a rural business, which he does. It's a godsend for people like him.

[@knelson3326]

Mr. Stossel, this is your finest work yet. Bravo!

[@VKZ24]

A friend of mine said it best when he overheard his peers talking about how much the big boss (company owner) was getting paid. My friend said "Last time I checked, a poor man never gave me a job". More taxes on the rich like Musk (who earned it BTW) doesn't work. He got richer by employing some of the smartest people on the planet. I'm a big Elon fan since he showed the Twitter censors the door, but to be clear Space-X designed and built those reusable rockets, not Elon all by himself. No doubt, he's a REALLY smart dude, but achievement of that magnitude takes a village.

[@sammalama]

Taxes do work, they keep powerful businesses in check. You're in favor of giving too much power to corporations over government? That's literally the same thing since both entities will do the exact same thing with absolute power. Which is enslave humanity. The power needs to be divided between corporations and government, or else we end up back in the medieval period with a ruling class and the rest of us are peasants.

[@leonidfro8302]

You say “more taxes doesn’t work” and I say that no taxes doesn’t work either. It’s those taxes made SpaceX possible in a first place. And to your friend - poor man never gave him a job, but poor man never bought laws either. Life is complicated.

[@sammalama]

@@leonidfro8302 I would even go as far as saying more taxes do work, look at places like Canada where the standard of living is better.

[@sanniepstein4835]

​@@sammalamano they're not. Now Canada is trying to enact laws that could allow life imprisonment for speech, and prosecution for anonymous claims of unapproved speech.

[@ledzeppelin1212]

Corporations are "greedy" for trying to make money by lowering the costs of goods. Politicians are greedy for trying to spend more of other people's money!

[@johntheux9238]

Exactly. Fixed price and cost plus. With fixed price contracts the only way to make profits is to be efficient, with cost plus the best way to maximise profits is to be inefficient.

[@kylewatson5133]

I define this as checked vs unchecked greed. Market greed is drastically checked, not only by government but by the market. Politicians greed is unchecked. They don't have to earn any of the money, they are not connected to the pain of production.

[@davidmihevc3990]

The vast majority of politicians have never worked in the private sector and have no idea how business works. If they operated like the government, every business would be bankrupt in no time.

[@sammalama]

Corporations don't lower the cost of goods, what world are you living in? They are price-gouging consumers, and creating monopolies to curb the market in their favor. Have you been asleep since 2019?

[@ronporter8542]

Corporations are never "greedy". Their job is to maximize profits for their owners (stockholders)

[@Sturmavk]

The fact that Pocahontas still has as job is simply unbelievable. Imagine a conservative pretending to be Native American in order to advance their career. They'd be fired/recalled in a heart beat. Warren is a glaring example of double standards.

[@AdamKlownzinger]

Well, Warren actually pretended to be a CONSERVATIVE for most of her life. She claims that its REPUBLICANS who “abandoned capitalism,” and that that is why she left the party… and joined the capitalism-loving Democrats? Idk either man

[@onieyoh9478]

Why wouldn't she still have her position? The problem isn't the politicians, its the people who keep voting for them- on both sides. But why not keep voting for them, they might not do what they say but at least they say things that make you feel good right! What's the definition of insanity again? That's right, doing the same thing and expecting different results.

[@NoName-rl3fh]

*Fauxcahontas

[@NoName-rl3fh]

​@@onieyoh9478her base has never had to sign draft cards...

[@bluettr250]

Wokeahontas

[@deanlawson6880]

This is great Stossel! More MAKERS and less TAKERS!! Exactly right!!

[@genebohannon8820]

Thank you for being a journalist without new speak.

[@rsmith1168]

Best segment I've ever seen Stossel put out, which is saying a lot, because he always has a way of showing how the profit motive is what made America great. Unfortunately, that is being demonized lately and could be the downfall of the USA.

[@steelefarmllc142]

Send the SEC after him! But don't look at congress inside trading

[@ronframe387]

Exactly! Nothing to see here, let's go after Elon!

[@seanpeine9258]

I would like an accounting of what they did with all Elons tax money! Where is the accountability of the government.

[@coreyshapiro2440]

What was Elon going to do with it that would have been so helpful?

[@winstonsyme5899]

@@coreyshapiro2440 Investing in other businesses. Expanding his businesses. Hiring more people Innovative products Etc.

[@seanpeine9258]

Great question. He is accountable to the stock owners of the company where all that money was providing equity for further business expansion. the customers he provides products for. And he has to do all that while beating out anyone else in the market that is competing for those same dollars from consumers.

[@seafoam6119]

@@coreyshapiro2440internet for Ukraine

[@allananderson949]

​@@coreyshapiro2440probably make more $30 door locks, instead of giving it to the government so they can do the same thing for $1500

[@AEC5150]

Amen! Now we need to get "We the People" to stop voting for politicians like Warren!

[@TheMusicscotty]

I never miss a stossel. Last if the real journalists.

[@samzach2057]

Well said Mr Stossel!!

[@majermike]

fuck yea stossel!!!

[@mitchellmeyer293]

Ya fir a Robber Baron Parrot

[@dionrau5580]

YES John the world needs 0 warrens and that's a fact Jack... FJB.

[@hadriansdog499]

Absolutely! More Musk, less Warren.

[@robertcalamusso1603]

He is our National Treasure!!! We need to protect him. 🇺🇸🦬🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@paulrevere5197]

There's a reason the government is so inefficient...When you can constantly force money from people, why would you be efficient, it pays much better not to be.

[@Sugarsail1]

God Bernie Sanders is his own punchline...how does anyone vote for these people?!

[@MikeJones-rk1un]

People vote for them because they are very convincing liars.

[@jimgrady8004]

The man who honeymooned in Russia. 😂

[@neilreynolds3858]

A quarter the people in the country want somebody to rob you and give them a part of the loot in exchange for their support. Another quarter are that old perennial the people who know better than you do what to do with your money. The rest of us are suckers who put up with being robbed and having the money used to take away our rights.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

People who are completely ignorant of economics often believe in socialism or at least endless welfare. To someone like that, Sanders looks pretty good. He's actually less sleezy and pandering than most leftists.

[@radicalrodent6005]

Because they feed envy: every liberal knows that the reason they are not as rich as Musk is because he is greedy and they are not, so they deserve to be as rich as Musk. Liberals have no notion of irony, either.

[@Good13man]

I love this!! 💯 percent agree!

[@arrakis8569]

Best video yet! Go Elon!

[@richb313]

Jealousy is also a powerful motivator politicians are jealous of Musk's success.

[@SimonASNG]

If it was just jealousy, they would have hated him before he bought twitter. It seems more like they are now threatened by him.

[@eotikurac]

the word would be envy but that's not it also, please define success

[@greenidguy9292]

They are afraid of him…

[@triviszla1536]

Success? Hyperloop: *FAIL* ❌ SolarCity: *FAIL* ❌ Tesla FSD: *FAIL* ❌ Tesla Semi “convoy operations”: *FAIL* ❌ The Boring Company: *FAIL* ❌ The company formerly known as Twitter: *FAIL* ❌ Neuralink: *FAIL* ❌ SpaceX Mars Colony by 2023: *FAIL* ❌ Tesla Bots, cheap imitation of Boston Dynamics Bots: *FAIL* ❌ SpaceX reusable, cheap, commercial travel rockets: *FAIL* ❌

[@artfuldodger8147]

Musk is far and away the most consequential man of his time. In 100 years, no one will remember Elizabeth Warren. In 100 years, Musk will be remembered just as we remember Thomas Edison and Henry Ford today.

[@ManoftheCentury101]

Agreed, and he's only in the past year or two really started to hit his stride. By the time he's gone, his contributions may well be incalculable.

[@greenidguy9292]

Don’t forget Nikola Tesla.

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

Love him or hate him... the dude puts his $$ where his mouth is and can back it up.

[@sammalama]

Except that Musk didn't design any of the products his companies make, he is not an Engineer no in the slightest. Everything he is, is because of the people who work FOR him. Instead of worshipping a man, maybe you should appreciate what Science can create.

[@ronja6791]

@@sammalama This is a common argument, and you're right about it. But, it takes someone with the vision and drive to bring it all together to make it a success. There are so many brilliant people out there who don't possess the other necessary qualities to make a vision a reality.

[@rydermeehan8171]

Amen, brother!

[@DigSamurai]

Thank you for pointing out the Stark difference between Elon Musk who builds things and Elizabeth Warren. As an entrepreneur I have learned so much from Elon Musk. First Principles thinking, not optimizing things that shouldn't exist, and teaching to the problem not the tool. We need more builders and less takers.

[@002mjr]

Your best video yet! I agree 100%. People need to support those who innovate and stop supporting politicians who get in the way!

[@triviszla1536]

Look up thunderf00t and common sense skeptic. Musk doesn’t innovate anything, he is a fraud.

[@ian3580]

What if those who innovate also support racism, nazi-ism, communism, are anti-safety, are anti-consumer......is innovation without bounds? You have to have your head in the sand to think that Musk is doing a good job. SpaceX is mostly NOT musk....it's some of his money and Shotwell running it well by keeping him out of running it. Tesla is a disaster, and Twitter has turned into a hateful back alley. Musk has yet to actually make anything. He didn't found Tesla or Paypal either. He just grabs companies and lies about what they can do to drive up stock prices. I expected better from Stossel.

[@ampfwilliams]

Thank You John Stossel!

[@davidcurtis9110]

Love ya, John! Thanks for all you've done - do now - and will continue to do (for many more years!) to keep rational thought and common sense alive!

[@davidhoehmann4988]

John you are the best. Thank you

[@whattheflux2733]

This Senator Warren is a HUGE embarrassment to her family name.

[@calvin99991]

And her Tribe...

[@NoName-rl3fh]

Correct

[@NoName-rl3fh]

​@@calvin99991so...white people? She has no tribe.

[@calvin99991]

@@NoName-rl3fh Look up 'sarcasm' in the dictionary.

[@protorhinocerator142]

Chief Big Wampum hangs his head in shame at what his daughter has become.

[@valdivia1234567]

Such a great video. We've moved into such a bad place intellectually in this country, we don't even understand who or what adds value. Politicians add zero value to society.

[@user-hj2up6qm1d]

advances in technology are what creates economic growth human inputs make a relatively small contribution guys like musk are way over rated computers chip memory doubles every 18 months thats the result of hundreds of engineers working at semiconductor companies not the work of elon musk the development of software is also the result of thousands of software engineers

[@chriscampanozzi6516]

Thank you for your content. Stay safe and keep fighting. God bless.

[@grob25]

I like how the ads on this video are the most liberal I have ever seen. John Stossel is speaking truth to power, and they hate it.

[@petegesellchen3181]

What we need to do is start taxing campaign contributions. Why should a politican be able to raise millions and not be taxed? Lets tax politicians and make them pay their fair share.

[@jimgrady8004]

Take away their ability to create their "Foundations." Just another term for money laundering.

[@petegesellchen3181]

@@jimgrady8004 agreed.

[@aliensoup2420]

Remove their ability to award themselves a pay raise. Also, implement TERM LIMITS. Both practically impossible since they are in control of those laws.

[@myronchamberlain7734]

The democrats want to tax your money not there's biden wants everyone to pay their fare share except the money he took from our emenys

[@83licata]

I trust Business owners who make $$ selling and providing services and products (who have morals) over envious and greedy politicians who don't know how to spend $$!

[@RayTheMickey]

They know how to spend it!

[@83licata]

@@RayTheMickey Than why are we $34 trillion in debt. People who know how to spend $$ don't usually go into bad debt like this, only stupid or corrupt people do that!

[@Stephenp911]

100% best content on social media

[@ericpeterson4578]

Amen and AMEN!!!!!!

[@unconditionalfreedom]

true greed comes from politicians not corporations, Business makers create revenue, politicians fill their pockets with the money of the working people whenever possible

[@jimgrady8004]

Definition of "Working People": Anyone who's NOT on the government payroll.

[@tmmsplace]

Id love to see Warren's and Sanders' charity donations for all their talk. How much is their personal giving to charity for each of the last 10 years?

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

less than 1%. you can actually look it up

[@jgringo5516]

They’re taxpayer grifters. They’ve made their money off the political position.

[@boulderbash19700209]

-$150,245.37

[@ian3580]

How much is Musk's charitable giving? How many nazi groups has he helped? How much has he supported Russia? Look into what he really does and stop being a fanboy but because he does a few cool things.

[@johannesmarkusfroech]

What a great take!

[@stevestephens4106]

100% correct

[@garyjohnson679]

J. Stossel thank you Sir

[@davham27]

Awesome I wish I could pay 0 taxes. How did he do that? Oh wait she's wrong and just trying to shame him got it.

[@benchoflemons398]

He got that from carrying forward losses from previous years. You can do that, you probably already do.

[@mynext30years41]

He did that by investing a whole lot of money into developing something new and incurring losses. Yet thousands of jobs he created paid lots of taxes.

[@bobsmith5088]

Spend on deductibles more than you earn.

[@sidwhiting665]

Several ways to do it. In the video, Stossel said it was because he "realized zero income" that year, which either mean his losses and deductions were greater than his income, or he may have simply not taken a salary or sold any assets that year. Musk can easily live off the wealth he made in years past for a lifetime. If you notice, he's not flamboyant like many wealthy celebrities... and he doesn't show off his basement fridge full of ice cream like some politicians do. * Keep in mind Musk owned PayPal, which he sold to help fund other businesses like Tesla and SpaceX. He likely also kept a portion of that back for personal expenses. * The other way to do it is to take loans against your assets. Musk has over $100 billion in company stock among his various businesses. Some of that is already pledged as collateral against other loans, but not all of it. So if you're Elon and you have $10 billion of free and clear stock in SpaceX/Tesla, you simply ask a bank to loan you $5 million against those shares of stock as collateral. Loans are not treated as income for tax purposes. Ergo: you pay zero in tax and have $5 million to live on. I think you will scrape by.... *wink

[@xcqematic1]

​@@sidwhiting665but you risk your assets the bank took collateral on. No one knows where the stocks are headed, and if the value drops, you essentially traded 1B with 5M (according to your example). Thats hardly "free".

[@johncrocker4209]

Basic economics apparently needs to be taught repeatedly throughout every year a person is in school. Because this video should be basic knowledge.

[@spankynater4242]

Basic economics apparently needs to be taught repeatedly throughout every year a person is in congress. Fixed that for you.

[@sexistspaghettios]

Unfortunately, I no longer trust schools to just teach economics. Or at least economics that improve people's lives as opposed to the economics that spend other people's money.

[@LaddDentalGroup]

Keep spreading the good word!!

[@ElliottNest39]

Excellent!

[@onemoretimetexas]

Thank you so much John. We are so grateful that you are such a leader in logic, reason, and common sense. All of gain by your wonderful work! Our very best to you for 2024!

[@johnhuber7188]

Spot on John , spot on 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@nepatswin]

God Bless Elon!

[@timgo16]

Atlas Shrugged in a nutshell. Thanks for sticking to your principles John.

[@RanchoTexano]

So simple and so true. Thanks John!

[@DB-zk6td]

I would be happy with more people who just go to work every day and don’t expect my work to fund their life.

[@erlingaamodt1964]

Thank you Stossel

[@xh3598]

Great job Mr. Stossel. Elon does have his flaws but his accomplishments to the world are what counts.

[@zbruh7268]

Isnt Elizabeth warren worth like 12 million bucks? Wonder how thats so when she only makes 170k per year?

[@brett84c]

I always like asking my liberal friends to specifically explain why they no longer like Elon Musk. He still makes electric cars and is focused on space travel, things that they used to love him for. They'll often give vague reasons but it's obvious they hate him for returning true free speech to Twitter and him being in opposition to the vaccine cult. I like to try and believe all humans are decent and good at their core but the pandemic definitely showed some people will absolutely sell out others in service of a political religious Doctrine.

[@triviszla1536]

How about looking up thunderf00t and common sense skeptic. Plenty of reasons in their videos. His “inventions” are crap

[@robertmack7116]

They’re against Musk because they’re instructed to be against Musk.

[@hadriansdog499]

You are absolutely correct.

[@danielkutcher5704]

Pure Stossel gold starting at 00:15 Libertarian! Stop the rulership class!

[@paulcgretired6245]

Your Video is so Perfect and Spot On John, all I can say is "Amen"

[@bryanwall7075]

Ironically we can vote these people out but yet here they are. Thanks for calling this evil woman out. Wake up people!!!!!

[@edubwalter3179]

Those who are unwilling to vote these parasites out of office are addicted to all the freebies the productive provide via unfair taxation!

[@toothzombie]

You forgot to mention Elizabeth’s wealth.

[@meikamolly]

Thank you for saying it!

[@rmartin9426]

The title if this video says it all. Don’t forget ‘the Breakers’ too though. Without the Takers & the Breakers (they’re often one & the same), we’ve solved a good deal of the world’s problems. Thanks John for all your work over the years.

[@thecwd8919]

John stossel is the hero amoung reporters. Great video as always John, you stop them from making humanity look lame.

[@whaler3232]

Is it strange that he's not investigating the "safe and effective" 30% higher death rates around the world? This guy actually thanked Pfizer

[@pkendlers]

Makers and Takers are wired up differently. I've been a creative Maker, (damn the consequences) since I could hold a crayon. Sadly, there are Takers born to the exact opposite way of life. This is the human condition. There are latent Makers in the adult population who haven't produced yet; there are also latent takers grinding away, waiting for an opportunity to leech off others. I think this is core personality, prehaps best influenced in childhood. It is who you are essentially. I'm glad I was born a maker, even if not to the scale of an Elon. And I pray God will be merciful to the takers, if they turn to Him. None of us are perfect, no matter what we are. We all need God.

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

SMH 80% on point then you bring your imaginary friend into it... why cant you cultists keep that crap for your sunday morning club meetings?

[@kcsthebetterway]

Well done, John!

[@stevemahoney1733]

This piece is a great example / reminder for anyone who hasn't read or even watched Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"

[@dfunckt]

In Canada there's no single human activity that doesn't have some regulation attached to it.

[@muddogtracker7449]

Same here in the States!

[@johnmeckel2319]

Sad State of Affairs! Justine Turdeau Has To Go!

[@JasRaymond1]

John you are once again so spot on with this one.

[@ian3580]

Have you researched Musk and what he actually has done? I can tell that you haven't, and neither did Stossel on this one.

[@JasRaymond1]

@@ian3580 You seem to be the one not doing your research or you are just blind and trusting Democrats Propaganda.

[@supafoob4528]

Yes!!!!!!!

[@its9429]

Gotta love Stossel!, Always great stuff.

[@FlyPiper14]

I hope more people are watching your videos and start asking themselves serious questions. Thanks for posting 👍