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🧵 #TaxCutsAndJobsAct at work: white supremacist Elon Musk lays off thousands of US employees, while enriching himself more via GOP's 2017 anti-constitutional, wealthy tax cuts! Via #MoveOn: Elon Musk has shockingly laid off thousands of workers: 2,700 at his Tesla plant in Austin, Texas, 3,300 in California, and hundreds in Buffalo, New York. This comes after months of union busting and worker exploitation.1 Local governments poured MILLIONS of dollars in tax incentives into Tesla, in part based on Musk's empty promises of job creation. It's unacceptable and has to stop. Tesla's massive layoffs have been described as "brutal," "chaotic," and a "bloodbath."2,3 And this is just the beginning. Musk wants to lay off nearly 20% MORE workers.4 Meanwhile, the Tesla board just approved Musk's outrageous and greedy $45 BILLION compensation package, despite a judge ruling earlier this year that it was "unfair" and "flawed."5,6 We can't let Musk cheat the system and profit off the backs of … Read more
