ELON Musk got into a vulgar spat on Twitter with Sen Ron Wyden Saturday after the billionaire made a poll about Tesla stock.
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla asked users on Twitter to vote on if he should sell 10 percent of Tesla stock.
Much of Elon’s wealth comes from his shares of Tesla, meaning he doesn’t get paid a cash salary.
“I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock,” he explained as Democrats have been pushing for billionaires to pay taxes when their stocks go up.
Oregon Senator Wyden responded to the poll: “Whether or not the world’s wealthiest man pays any taxes at all shouldn’t depend on the results of a Twitter poll. It’s time for the Billionaires Income Tax.”
In a vulgar response, Musk tweeted: “Why does ur [sic] pp look like u just c***?”
Many Twitter users had a variety of responses.
Gun control activist David Hogg responded with a facepalm emoji.
One user wrote: “Imagine being a grown man who runs a publicly-traded company and actually writing this and then deciding to his ‘reply’.”
Others found the exchange amusing with one user writing: “This may be the greatest response I’ve ever seen ”
The poll ended with 57.9 percent of users voting “Yes” out of 3.5million total votes.
“I will abide by the results of this poll,” said Musk before the final results. “Whichever way it goes.”
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