These millionaires and billionaires say that you should pay more taxes COVID-19 cover costs

These millionaires and billionaires say that you should pay more taxes COVID-19 cover costs

Tens of millionaires in the United States and six other countries have a message for us in control of their governments. Tax United States. tax us “The call themselves millionaires for humanity, more than 80 high net worth individuals -. Including Walt Disney Co. heiress Abigail Disney, CEO of BlackRock Inc. Former Morris Pearl and Danish-Iranian entrepreneurs Jaffar Shalchi – plus tax high for the rich help pay for the petition billion of new government programs necessitated by Covid-19 pandemic. “Today, we the undersigned and billionaires, we ask our governments to impose taxes on people like us. Immediately. Essentially. Definitely “after the open letter.” We’re not stocking supermarket shelves or the provision of door-to-door food. But we’re dealing with money, lots of it. The money that is now urgent. “His letter comes before this weekend’s Group of 20 meeting, is not the first such attraction. Even before the pandemic public finances upward, a cohort of 200 or so people going Patriotic Millionaires called – a group that includes Disney and pearl – was pushing for a progressive tax system. in their open letter, the millionaires for mankind warn that the epidemic could push inadequate health systems millions more people into poverty and oppressed already occupied largely by underpaid women. love is not the answer. “the responsibility of the state leaders must take to have the means for lifting and we need to spend the right,” according to the letter. “we have a great debt to the people on the front to work this global struggle. Essential workers are grossly underpaid for the weight they carry. “
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