2024-01-17 09:36:28
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On the occasion of the Davos Economic Forum, hundreds of billionaires and millionaires, including Brian Cox and Valerie Rockefeller, pleaded this Wednesday, January 17 for the establishment of a tax on the wealthiest.
ECONOMY – Call for awareness. As for several years during the Davos Economic Forumhundreds of billionaires and millionaires pleaded this Wednesday, January 17 with the world political elite for the establishment of a tax on the most fortunate in order to improve the quality of public services around the world.
“Our request is simple: we ask you to tax us, the richest in society”write in a letter aimed at world leaders. The 250 signatories, including Abigail Disney, Disney heiress; Brian Cox, actor in the series Succession ; or Valerie Rockefeller, eminent American heir to an oil tycoon, come from 17 countries around the world.
Pay more taxes “will not fundamentally alter our standard of living, deprive our children or harm the economic growth of our nations”, continue to pursue these millionaires and billionaires in this missive entitled “Proud to pay”.
Halve the number of billionaires, according to Oxfam
“We are also the ones who benefit the most from the status quo “, they admit, before continuing: “ But inequality has reached a tipping point and its cost to our economic, societal and ecological stability is severe – and growing every day. In short, we must act now”.
This letter becomes a tradition in Davos. Already in 2023, 200 millionaires, including two French people, had demanded that the ultra-rich be taxed more. And in 2022, there were around a hundred asking for it.
On the occasion of Davos, the NGO Oxfam once again condemned “obscene inequalities” in the world. She is campaigning in particular for a halving of the number of billionaires by 2030 thanks to taxation. In the longer term, this citizen movement pleads for their “ abolition » total. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, according to Oxfam, the richest 1% have captured 63% of the wealth produced, almost twice as much as the rest of the world’s population.
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