Elon Musk offers to pay TSA workers' salaries

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Elon Musk offered to cover the salaries of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel during the ongoing government funding standoff. "I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country," Musk said in an X post on Saturday morning.

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Elon Musk offered to cover the salaries of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel during the ongoing government funding standoff.

"I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country," Musk said in an X post on Saturday morning.

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Any chance Democrats and Republicans allow this to happen.

#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-21 10:23 AM | Reply

"I would like to offer to pay"

Hey failed penis enlargement surgery victim.

You can just start giving people money.

You don't have to ask anyone's permission.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-21 10:30 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

^ Exactly. Better start hitting them airports, Elon! Nobody is stopping you.

#3 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-21 10:35 AM | Reply

You know what else Elon Musk can do?

Pay taxes.

Same with the rest of the billionaires.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-21 10:41 AM | Reply

I hate to break it to you, Clownshack, but billionaires DO pay taxes. Lots of taxes. You are being lied to.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-21 10:48 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I hate to break it to you, Clownshack, but billionaires DO pay taxes

What are you breaking to me? Your lack of understanding how math works.

Thanks to tax cuts, creative accounting, off shore holdings, and many other loopholes we couldn't imagine, billionaires pay less in percentage than the middle class does.

americansfortaxfairness.org

news.berkeley.edu

www.cbsnews.com

democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov

finance.yahoo.com

opportunityinstitute.org

www.americanprogress.org

www.oxfamamerica.org

You've proven yourself to be nothing but a bootlicker for the wealthy.

They've taught you to be servile and you put your 110% into it.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-21 11:01 AM | Reply

Jeff Bezos salary is $80,000 a year.

He pays a lower income tax rate than most of us.

Republicans who pay more income taxes than Jeff Bezos say it's because Republicans are dumb with their money compared to Jeff Bezoz.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-21 11:06 AM | Reply

If Musk and the rest of America's billionaires paid the same tax rates the wealthy did in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, America could actually be the first world nation we all pretend it is.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-21 11:12 AM | Reply

Every time people point out what percentage of total income taxes are paid by the top 20% it correctly gets pointed out that this country has all sorts of other taxes, including property and sales taxes, that have to be paid.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-21 11:12 AM | Reply

Capital gains taxes and taxes on divideds as income are also at play.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-21 11:13 AM | Reply

Look at BullBringer suck Musk's dick.

He literally ignored a mountain of evidence to maintain his false claim.

What a good cultist you are.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-21 11:16 AM | Reply

"Thanks to tax cuts, creative accounting, off shore holdings, and many other loopholes we couldn't imagine, billionaires pay less in percentage than the middle class does."

You need to educate yourself gurrfrend:

taxfoundation.org

#12 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-03-21 11:37 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Lemme guess, you're one of those idiot fanbois in favor of taxing unrealized capital gains.

#13 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-03-21 11:38 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

"Every time people point out what percentage of total income taxes are paid by the top 20% it correctly gets pointed out that this country has all sorts of other taxes, including property and sales taxes, that have to be paid."

Dude, wanna know who doesn't pay federal income taxes? It's people making less than $46k per year. The average bracket for that group is 3.3%.

In Sweden, it would be 33%.

#14 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-03-21 11:40 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

You need to educate yourself gurrfrend:
taxfoundation.org
#12 | Posted by madbomber

Yes, let's educate.

Which income group is Jeff Bezos in, with his $80,000 annual salary?

He's in the bottom 50%.

So his income tax rate is about 3.3%.

You and I pay a higher rate.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-21 11:55 AM | Reply

Unrealized capital gains should be taxed, past some extreme high threshold that most of us will never surpass. Maybe something close to the $12M exemption for the Death Tax.

Hoarding capital is contrary to the purposes for which capital was invented by us human beings.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-21 11:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" Dude, wanna know who doesn't pay federal income taxes? It's people making less than $46k per year."

Not true at all. Federal income taxes start above $15,750 for the year.

You're referring to a trust fund baby, and that number is closer to $55,000 with no federal taxes.

Meanwhile, a janitor who profits $55,000 from the sweat of his brow owes over $10,000 in federal taxes.

" year. The average bracket for that group is 3.3%."

Incorrect again. You are conflicting marginal rate with effective rate.

#17 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-03-21 12:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

What "news" outlet told you income taxes don't start until after $47,000?

#18 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-03-21 12:10 PM | Reply

^conflating

Ah, the joys of working until 3 in the morning!

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-03-21 12:37 PM | Reply

I'm doing my taxes right now.

TurboTax says my blended tax rate is 17.6%.

According to MadBomber's post over here, taxfoundation.org to be paying that rate, I must be somewhere in the top 10% income among Americans.

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-21 12:59 PM | Reply

POSTED BY MADBOMBER

What do you do, monitor the DR until a thread about income inequality gets posted and you jump in to cheerleader for the wealthy?

Did you ever move to Honduras? You know, the place you said homeless Americans could live like kings.

It's amazing how you ignorant morons are so obsequious to the wealthy.

It's almost like you stupid morons are easy targets.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-21 01:02 PM | Reply

Actually I wouldn't directly tax the unrealized capital gains. That doesn't put the capital back into play.

I would make long term capital hoarding subject to some kind of Required Minimum Distribution, like when us normal people miraculously live to age 73 and have a IRA. Just noticed Roth IRAs don't have RMD... hmmm. I wonder who benefits most from that, is it rich people or poor people?

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-21 02:01 PM | Reply