EH Elon Musk is interesting.

Elon Musk is interesting. He chose to get paid not in salary. You are taxed not on your income. That's not what the tax code says. You are taxed based on your taxable income. What Elon Musk did building Tesla, he negotiated with the investors and the board: I want to get paid not with a salary. I want to get paid with stock options. And he was awarded these Tesla stock options at about $6 a share. He was given millions and millions of stock options. Tesla stock goes up to $100 a share, now he is rich on paper. He doesn't have any money, but if he sold that stock, he would have $94. Now you have a tax taxable income. So instead, what he does is he goes to the bank. He says, hey bank, I have these millions and millions of stock options. Would you like to loan me $10 million? No bank is going to say no. $10 million, but it is not income, it's debt. Debt is not taxed. So now he gets this $10 million of loans to buy a house, to buy a car, to buy vacation, to buy whatever. To buy Twitter, and pay no money in taxes. And it's 100% legal.