tesla ceo elon musk appeared tuesday on the rightofcenter christian satire site called the babylon bee topics ranged from the “woke mind virus” to climate change to tesla ticker tsla while not a traditional outlet for financial news the interview ended up offering some important tidbits for tesla investors along with some social issues musk discussed wealth taxes stock sales and his dislike of recent comments by sen elizabeth warren the most important thing for investors might be comments about musk’s recent stock sales the conclusion after exercising all the management stock options awarded back in 2012 musk will be done selling musk conducted a conducted a twitter poll in early november asking if he should sell 10 of his tesla stake musk started selling after the twitterverse said yes tesla stock has fallen 23 since the poll the nasdaq composite is off about 4 over the same span the sp 500 has fallen about 1 selling large blocks of stock can pressure any shares but investors don’t like uncertainty either it was hard to know exactly how many shares musk intended to sell to meet the 10 threshold musk’s holdings when he started selling amounted to about 170 million shares coming into tuesday he sold about 13 million shares he now owns about 175 million shares he’s added stock by exercising expiring management stock options musk however indicated in the interview his 10 goal included stock sales tied to the options that means he is almost done musk has another 8 million to 9 million options to exercise which will result in another 3 million to 4 million shares sold to pay the taxes on the gains from exercising musk still sounds like he wants credit for paying the tax sen warren the democrat from massachusetts “called me a freeloader and a grifter that doesn’t pay taxes basically” explained musk “i’m paying the most tax that any individual has every paid in history this year” adding that warren’s salary is paid by taxpayers “if you could die by irony she’d be dead” musk also pointed out that his taxes aren’t all that complicated and in an interesting comment said hr block hrb could do his taxes there are no offshore accounts or complicated tax avoidance structures the tax bill is relatively easy to calculate he will pay about 11 billion in taxes in 2021 musk also spoke about the nature of wealth while not very important for investors it was still interesting musk doesn’t seem to like the narrative about billionaire wealth “what is this wealth it’s not like there is some massive cash balance” explains musk “this is not some function of some hoarding it’s simply that i own 20 of a company that became very valuable as decided by external investors” tesla is worth roughly 1 trillion that generates about 200 billion in wealth for musk that math is even easier to do that his tax bill