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Billionaire giving keeps finding its mechanism

Musk's SpaceX-stock pledge turns from a single gesture into a reportable policy question, likely routed through the tax-advantaged Trump Accounts program and splitting reaction between "genius" and "corrupt," a status change on an idea the brief flagged yesterday as philanthropy by stunt.

Early, not yet confirmed upstream.

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