Musk Refuses to Pay Rent for Twitter building due to City Conditions
(www.breitbart.com)
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This is actually a fascinating strategy. Locating your HQ in cities that desperately need to hold onto businesses while refusing rent until they improve.
I genuinely don't know how this will turn out, although he has some balls on him to try this. One of the more aggressive ways to fuck with a Dem city I have seen so far.
I'm a bit perplexed by this. Shouldn't the statement be made by not paying local taxes? Unless the landlord is also affiliated with the cities/states, it seems to me like they would be screwing an unaffiliated third party.
If you don't pay taxes, men with guns come to take your stuff. If you don't pay rent, the landlord tells the people you paid taxes to, to come kick you out. Since the men with guns don't want to take kick you out since you are paying them, they put backchannel pressure on the landlords to not kick you out, leaving the landlords with the only recourse of actually having to maintain their properties.
Property taxes are assessed to the owner of the structure and land, not to the tenant(s) of the structure. By refusing to pay rent, Elon is denying his landlord the means to pay property taxes on the structure.
If they've been renting land to Twitter to operate, they're not unafilliated. For years, Twitter was a propaganda platform against whites, men, Christians, and civil society in general. I don't know precisely where the line between collaborator and citizen is drawn, but I'm certain whoever owns those lands and buildings gets to share in the blame.
I look forward to them refusing to corral all their homeless and druggies followed by Musk making a big public fuss about how the politicians in power are entirely to blame when Twitter up and leaves for a less insane city.
So essentially 'till this city stops being covered in shit, I ain't paying shit'
Fair argument since if a regular landlord is liable for things like mold in their properties, try to explain why the sane can be true for a city as rotten as San Francisco.
Musk needs to move Twitter out of San Francisco.
If he’s serious he should move to Texas/Florida and get out of SF.
No way in hell will this course of action stand up in California court. (unless he pretends to be African American)
Fun fact :
Same as his attempt to avoid paying for twitter he will now be forced to pay.
No way in hell will he win in California court.
OK, let's see if this isn't the beginning of San Fran going full OCP/Shadowrun.