They want NOW to reduce the number of millionaires and billionaires by half b 2030, by very high taxation in order to create a "more fair world"
they also want to tax the food companies, because they make "way to much more money" while the normal population struggle to survive
More than 250 billionaires and millionaires tell world leaders: 'Tax us'
“Our request is simple: tax us, the very richest in society," they write in an open letter.
Among the letter’s signatories: Valerie Rockefeller, heir to the American oil and industry dynasty; actor Brian Cox, best known for playing billionaire businessman Logan Roy on HBO’s Succession; and filmmaker Abigail Disney, who’s long leaned on her last name to publicly campaign for wealth reform.
“I could be a billionaire if I wanted to be a billionaire, and I’m not because I don’t want to be a billionaire,” Disney told New York Magazine’s The Cut in 2019. “That’s an insane amount of money. But it’s the easiest thing in the world to make money if you start with money.”
A new poll released by advocacy group Patriotic Millionaires finds that 75% of the uber-wealthy support a 2% wealth tax on billionaires. Plenty are willing to apply that standard to their own bank accounts, too: 66% of respondents agreed that they would support higher taxes on themselves if the revenue would be used to provide better public services and a more stable economy. More than half (54%) agree that the concentration of extreme wealth is a threat to democracy.
they also want to tax the food companies, because they make "way to much more money" while the normal population struggle to survive
WEF: Oxfam urges windfall tax on food companies
Food companies making big profits as inflation has surged should face windfall taxes to help cut global inequality, says anti-poverty group Oxfam.
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