Regardless of who Elon Musk is, this story tells a lot about the absurdity of the tax system. Imagine ifall companies would need to sell off significant amount of shares in prevision of taxes they have to pay for withdrawing a fraction of their capital?

This would lead to artifically decrease the value of remaining assets and would precipitate a wave of additonal selloffs from investors.

A recipe for another market crash, created artificially by stupid policy makers and politicians.

[Facepalm]