What exactly business are taxed on varies a bit from state to state, but for a tax on "profit", which is the most common in the US, wages are definitely deductable from revenue to get the "profit" for a given period.
Walmart and Amazon would pay a hell of a lot more tax if they couldn't subtract the wages they paid to their employees and contractors from the money that comes in the door when calculating their tax bill.
Maybe note that Wages arent like office equipment, in that there's no asset to plausibly be sold to recoup a purchase price?
(This isn't directly my area of expertise either, but I have a hard time thinking of a tax scheme that would allow deducting the cost of an office chair rented for an employee but not the wages paid to her.)
Security,.privacy, and logistics would all adapt and be of weirdly more manpower with teleportation than without.
There would be companies who do nothing but teleport goods across the world all day. Just because I don't have to drive an hour to the warehouse doesn't mean I want to take an hour to teleport to the warehouse and pick up my purchase myself.
"town hall" is a style of event. Back when there were meaningful debates during presidential campaigns, it used to be a regular choice.
I guarantee you that they were closed events, with attendees chosen legally-arbitrarily by whatever TV network was hosting the event.
So long as he takes questions from those in attendance, it's a town hall. Even if no cameras are allowed.
Unless the town hall is paid for with taxpayer dollars or held on government property, it's a citizen who happens to be in Congress having a private event with their political supporters.
Same as a political party convention or fundraiser dinner,.AFAIK.
(And, depending on state law, even a function on government property may be legally private.)
There is a mythical "Sony fan" customer who pays extra for their video game consoles, and justified that by believing it comes with a right to be special and awesome and play games no one else is allowed to.
It's a pantomine of a Nintendo fan, who pays for an underpowered console for first-party games that use unique controllers. None of whom would ever complain if their games were sold on PC so long as they could bring the controller over.
AFAIK, the only real people who want exclusives on PlayStation are Sony employees and shareholders.
Is this moron still involved in any way?
Was he ever?
(Apropos reminder that Musk has nothing to do with Tesla staring; he just showed up with his PayPal golden parachute, picked "founder" as the title he wanted, and they proceeded to success largely in spite of anything he actually did.)