More than 250 billionaires and millionaires on Wednesday reiterated their call on elected representatives of the world’s leading economies to introduce higher taxes on the very richest in society.

In an open letter to political leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the rich signatories said they wished to deliver a clear message: “Tax our extreme wealth.”

“We are surprised that you have failed to answer a simple question that we have been asking for three years: when will you tax extreme wealth?” the letter said.

“Our request is simple: we ask you to tax us, the very richest in society. 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.”

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    10 months ago

    Fucking hypocrites. “Our request is simple: we ask you to tax us, the very richest in society" and then they let loose their army of lobbysts and lawyers to stop governments from even trying to tax them.

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      10 months ago

      Well, yeah. Plausible deniability, my good Demonsword.

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      10 months ago

      I mean, there’s a LOT of billionaires at this point. Are the ones saying this at Davos all (or largely) ones that are doing that lobbying?

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        10 months ago

        there’s a LOT of billionaires at this point

        you can’t even fill a small stadium if you gathered all of the world’s billionaires, its only a few thousand… 2-3k last time I’ve seen that statistic

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          10 months ago

          Ok, then, this would be 10% writing this letter, and my question wasn’t answered.