There are lots of cafes that give free coffee to people wearing “I voted” stickers on Election Day. Is that illegal? Because it’s basically the same thing.
Musk isn’t giving everyone a million dollars. He’s giving people lottery tickets, and they might be worth a million dollars but are far more likely to be worthless.
You can buy such lottery tickets yourself, and they cost about the same as a cup of coffee.
One is giving you a gift worth less than $5 for taking part in society, the other is paying you $1M for saying you will vote a specific way. And before you say a gift is a gift, the government has a definition of a gift when it comes to fraud, waste, and abuse. Heck, if we go by your insane equivocation of the two things, those “I voted” stickers are the same as getting free coffee.
There are lots of cafes that give free coffee to people wearing “I voted” stickers on Election Day. Is that illegal? Because it’s basically the same thing.
Somehow a free cup of joe or a free million dollars balances out. Yeah basically the same.
Musk isn’t giving everyone a million dollars. He’s giving people lottery tickets, and they might be worth a million dollars but are far more likely to be worthless.
You can buy such lottery tickets yourself, and they cost about the same as a cup of coffee.
One is giving you a gift worth less than $5 for taking part in society, the other is paying you $1M for saying you will vote a specific way. And before you say a gift is a gift, the government has a definition of a gift when it comes to fraud, waste, and abuse. Heck, if we go by your insane equivocation of the two things, those “I voted” stickers are the same as getting free coffee.