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[Spoken audio]: Wait, if billionaires borrow billions against their stock to finance their expenses, how do they pay the huge loans back? Like Elon Musk borrowed billions against his Tesla stock just to buy Twitter for $44 billion. How will he actually pay it back? He's not paying it back. He's just paying interest. Forever. How? When a billionaire takes a loan against their stock, the bank doesn't ask for the full amount back monthly like a normal mortgage. They only ask for the interest, sometimes as low as 2-4% a year. Then? And here's the part that breaks people's brains. If their stock grows faster than that interest rate, the loan basically pays for itself. Tesla stock has grown over 20% some years. The loan costs 3%. The math isn't even close. So the debt just sits there, getting smaller in real terms while their wealth keeps growing? Exactly. And when the loan gets large, they don't panic. They just take out a new loan to refinance the old one. Same trick, new paperwork. The debt rolls forward year after year. So when does it actually get paid off? It doesn't, not by them. Then who pays it? Nobody, because of one legal rule that changes everything. When a billionaire dies, their assets pass to their children at what's called a stepped up basis. That means the stock's original purchase price gets erased and it resets to the value on the day they died. Wait, what does that actually mean for the loan? It means the heirs can sell a small slice of stock to clear the loan and pay almost zero capital gains tax doing it. The growth that happened over the billionaires' entire lifetime? The IRS never touches a cent of it. It just vanishes, legally. So the loan gets settled by their kids tax-free using money that was never taxed in the first place? Exactly. It's called the buy, borrow, die. They never pay. Just pass it on and the tax bill that should have been billions it disappears the moment. They stop breathing
