Abigail Disney, Brian Cox and Valerie Rockefeller among signatories of open letter condemning inequality
More than 250 billionaires and millionaires are demanding that the political elite meeting for the World Economic Forum in Davos introduce wealth taxes to help pay for better public services around the world.
“Our request is simple: we ask you to tax us, the very richest in society,” the wealthy people said in an open letter to world leaders. “This will not fundamentally alter our standard of living, nor deprive our children, nor harm our nations’ economic growth. But it will turn extreme and unproductive private wealth into an investment for our common democratic future.”
The rich signatories from 17 countries include Disney heir Abigail Disney; Brian Cox who played fictional billionaire Logan Roy in Succession; actor and screenwriter Simon Pegg; and Valerie Rockefeller , an heir to the US dynasty.
Republicans idolize the 1950s. They conveniently forget about the part where the top tax bracket was taxed at 90%.
And now they claim if we have a wealth tax, they’ll just move. Massachusetts passed a wealth tax recently. Astoundingly, all the wealthy people didn’t move. Turns out they’re fine paying a premium to have a house in Martha’s Vineyard and a condo in Boston because, and I know this is a shock to Republicans, they can afford to pay a premium to live somewhere desirable.
Massachusetts passed a wealth tax recently.
Not to be pedantic, but it’s an income tax.
It’s generally being called a wealth tax.
There’s a major difference between the two
Maybe, but it’s being called a ‘wealth tax’ or a ‘millionaire’s tax.’ You don’t have to take my word for it- https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=massachusetts+wealth+tax#ip=1
Just because some people call it a wealth tax does not mean we should perpetuate the micsonception
It’s an income tax on high earners, and objectively not a wealth tax no matter how many people call it that
Agreed. Having lived through the ad campaigns and voted for this tax myself, I can confirm that I, at least, never heard anyone call it a wealth tax. A millionaire’s tax, sure, but that’s just a catchy shorthand. If you do the google search Mr. Flying Squid suggested, you’ll find a lot of sources calling it a millionaire’s tax, and maybe a couple calling it a wealth tax. The ones calling it a wealth tax are just plain wrong.
It’s not enough to just say it.
Because other billionaires give millions to ensure it doesn’t happen. And I think it would be naive to not expect some overlap in these groups.
If they mean it, they should literally put their money where their mouths are and donate to progressive Dems during primaries and the general.
Exactly, this is just a game of “our billionaires are better than your billionaires” and considering their billionaires are paying them off, that’s not surprising.
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If they mean it, they should literally put their money where their mouths are and donate to progressive Dems during primaries and the general.
How do you know they don’t?
Stuff like this…
https://www.newsweek.com/disney-gave-least-250k-senators-that-voted-dont-say-gay-bill-1686128
Rather than ask me for a source of all of them not donating…
Wouldn’t it be easier to find a single one about them doing it?
You’re asking me to do something incredibly time consuming, and frankly close to impossible with just public knowledge, but to prove your side, you just need to find a single source to prove me wrong
I think you need to read Abigail Disney’s Wikipedia page to learn the difference between her and the Disney corporation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Disney
I mean, she’s literally cited/quoted in the article that YOU just linked yourself, as the active opposition.
I can’t see where she’s donating to progressive candidates…
I know she says stuff, and donates to charity.
I said:
If they mean it, they should literally put their money where their mouths are and donate to progressive Dems during primaries and the general.
And I haven’t seen any evidence any of them do. Maybe some gave a couple thousand, but that won’t beat what billionaires spend on PACs.
You made a claim, implicitly, that they aren’t doing so. You were asked how you knew this claim was true. Your response should have just been that you don’t know whether it’s true, only that it’s what you think they should do, instead of trying to blame the other poster.
Oh cool, another person who can’t link a source for any of these “super rich” donating substantial money to progressives in primaries.
There’s a lot of y’all, you don’t have to keep telling me you couldn’t find anything
And now you’re trying to blame me. Lol classic.
I want to believe them… but it takes more than just words. I feel like if they REALLY wanted this, it would have been done by now.
It looks like they really want this; however, even they understand that people will circumvent the laws and move money to more “favorable” countries, if the world doesn’t take a coordinated approach.
The politicians have been setting up the game to appease the rich for generations. It won’t be undone that easily.
And when action happens, I will be behind 100%. Need to read the article, is there even a plan? Other than “hey politicians, do this”?
Also billionaires: Let me put my money in offshore accounts and buy a ton of museums and art and shit and then let me get a tax write off against it.
Nothing short of an avalanche of left leaning policies will actually get billionaires to pay more in tax. And that won’t happen, because billionaires have already heavily invested in conservative and ‘progressive’ politicians who won’t dare bite hand that feeds them.
I hope I’m wrong, but I have a feeling I’m not.
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They don’t mean it.
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Their owned politicians won’t do it.
Abigail Disney absolutely does mean it. She gives away a ton of money and is highly critical of Disney. Sure, she could give it all away or she could use her money to influence politicians to actually help while also donating a ton.
I’m still on the fence about her. It’s been proven charity from millionaires and billionaires is a drop in the ocean compared to what fair taxation of their wealth could do for better organized government programs with farther reach. Not to mention charitable donations can be used for tax write-offs.
Part of me applauds her work but on the other hand I often wonder if there’s some kind of savior complex with these ppl.
We should absolutely not be encouraging ANYONE to use the US’ legal corruption, regardless of what it’s for.
Lobbying, ALL LOBBYING, should be banned. It is corruption. P E R I O D.
Why do you think they are saying it then? Why not say nothing like the rest of them?
Even if it were to happen, taxation is a game. And like ANY game, if you throw enough effort at it, it can be beaten. The 1% can afford to throw that effort at any tax rules you can devise. They are quite confident they can beat the game no matter what you do.
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Propaganda.
This is basically trying to save face. They may as well say “no really, all you plebs shouldn’t hate us! It’s not our fault we’re rich and don’t pay taces!” Because they can feel now how bad things are getting and how much worse they’re likely going to get as the decade unfurls
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Nice to see more rich people not agree to the system :)
Fact: you can pay more taxes voluntarily without being told you have to.
They aren’t saying it because they really want to pay more taxes
They’re saying a system should be put in place where the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes
It’s a subtle but important distinction
You are asking them for their fish. This request seems to be an attempt to teach your politicians how to fish.
I’d much rather see them use it to lobby in favour of taxes on the wealthy, than seeing a handful of them give part of their money away.
How? Just pay the taxes and NOT file for a refund? Is that’s tax evasion?
“Okay my dudes, perhaps the joke of unending accumulation and exponential exploitation of natural resources until we don’t know where to park the unused private jets has gone a little too far, maybe?”
That’s a very nice open letter you signed. Now turn and face the wall.
