Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish • 10 months ago

Tax our wealth, super-rich tell politicians at Davos

www.theguardian.com

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Tax our wealth, super-rich tell politicians at Davos

www.theguardian.com

Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish • 10 months ago

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Abigail Disney, Brian Cox and Valerie Rockefeller among signatories of open letter condemning inequality

Archived version: https://archive.ph/ab4x6
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240117075622/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/17/wealth-tax-super-rich-davos-abigail-disney-brian-cox-valerie-rockefeller

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I think they forgot the “we dare you” part of the speech
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  This is just a virtue signal. They know politicians won’t do it, because they own the majority of them.
  
  It’s like the carbon tax that fossil fuel corps promoted while they knew they owned enough politicians for a carbon tax to never pass.

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