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Fortune
Catherina Gioino

Musk says taxing every billionaire at 100% would barely make a dent in the national debt. Bernie says tax them 5% and you're $3,000 richer

Photos of Elon Musk (left) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Credit: Musk: Fabrice COFFRINI—AFP/Getty Images; Sanders: Graeme Sloan—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

The richest person in the world and the most well-known person leading the cause against creating more people like him have many differing views on taxing the ultrawealthy.

But now, Elon Musk and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), two men on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, are using the same math to make opposite arguments for how much billionaires should be taxed, and how that money should be allocated.

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