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“Make us pay more taxes.” The letter from 102 super rich people to the World economic forum

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“Make us pay more taxes.” It is the new appeal to the governments of the 102 crooks convinced that the current system of taxation is unfair. In an open letter they state: “While the world has suffered in these two years, many of us can say that they have seen their wealth increase during the pandemic. Few of us, perhaps none, can honestly say that we have paid the right amount of taxes ».

Among the signatories is Abigail Disney, the heir of Walt Disney, who has long been at the forefront of demanding a fairer tax. In the letter, the super rich explain how they believe the current system has created a lack of trust between ordinary people and the elites. “The world, and every country, must ask the rich to pay the fair. Tax us, and tax us now ».

The appeal letter was presented to coincide with the virtual meetings of the World Economic Forum which began on January 17th. The group that – as Reuters reports – calls itself “Patriotic Millionaires” said the ultra-rich are not currently being forced to pay their share of the global economic recovery from the pandemic.

According to an Oxfam study released in recent days, over the course of the two years of the pandemic, the fortunes of the 10 richest individuals in the world have risen from $ 700 billion to $ 1,500 billion – at a rate of about $ 15,000 per second.

In the same period – recalls the Oxfam complaint – «163 million people fell into poverty due to the pandemic. Since the start of the Covid-19 emergency, every 26 hours a new billionaire has joined an elite made up of over 2,600 super-rich whose fortunes have increased by as much as 5 trillion dollars, in real terms, between March 2020 and November 2021 “.

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