That's one of those things where if it sounds too amazing to be true then you need to apply a reality check. How likely is it Elon Musk pays more tax in absolute dollar value than over 100 million other Americans combined?Musk already pays taxes, according to estimates he pays more taxes than 50% of America COMBINED.
He definitely doesn't.
The first way this bullshit usually works is to say Elon Musk pays more than 50% of Americans in federal income tax. But Americans pay a lot more taxes than federal income tax. Once total taxes are considered, the claim that Musk pays more total tax than 50% of Americans is rendered completely laughable.
The second way it probably works is through an accounting fiddle. This is based in the fact that poor people get forms of income support from the government. This gets subtracted from their federal income tax demands as an accounting convenience. But the reality is that whatever this accounting convenience, they are paying tax. If we imagine 100 million people paying just 5% a year federal income tax on average $30,000 income, that's $150 billion in federal income tax they are paying annually. Surely no-one thinks Musk is paying anything close to that much.