Elon Musk's extraordinary twitter poll

And what it reveals about the absurdity of taxing income rather than wealth

Last weekend, Elon Musk used a twitter poll to make a political point, and it exploded in his and other Tesla investors’ faces.

Bear in mind that billionaires like him pay almost no income tax because they have almost no income. Their wealth is in shares of stock -- against which they borrow to finance their lavish lifestyles. (You and I can’t do this be…