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Disney heiress is among the millionaires calling for governments to impose higher taxes on the wealthy to help fund the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
"Tax us. Tax us. Tax us," an open letter from the group calling itself "Millionaires for Humanity" read.
The 83 signatories on the letter also included Abigail's brother Tim, Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield, as well as British movie director Richard Curtis.
The letter stated that the problems caused and revealed by the pandemic could not be solved with charity, "no matter how generous," and that governments must take responsibility for raising the funds needed to tackle the issues themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/tax-us-ultra-rich-call-for-higher-taxes-to-aid-coronavirus-recovery/ar-BB16Gi8C?li=BBnb7Kz
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)It will likely take the United States returning to tax rates following WW II to bring the country back from the disaster and destruction Donald Dumbass inflicted. Which has also been the problem with the country for the last five decades with republicans trying to drown the government in a bathtub, which has caused decay and decline for a majority of the American People and the U.S infrastructure.
Midnight Writer
(21,856 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)raise our taxes.
Mariana
(14,863 posts)In the meantime, if these ultra-rich people truly don't feel they are contributing their fair share, they are free to make gifts to the US Treasury. How many of them have done so?
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
trueblue2007
(17,250 posts)G.H.W.BUSH --- " Read our lips, raise our taxes." ** Thanks Bush for changing your mind. You must be rolling over in your grave seeing the DAMAGE that "Republican" TRUMP has done to our country !!!!