Tax the Rich: An Unequal Tale of Taxes in Two Capital Cities

Tax the Rich: An Unequal Tale of Taxes in Two Capital Cities

Republished with permission from Inequality.org, by Sam Pizzigati Nine of the world’s ten wealthiest billionaires now call the United States home. The remaining one? He lives in France. And that one—Bernard Arnault, the 76-year-old who owns just about half the world’s largest maker of luxury goods—is now feeling some heat. What has Arnault and his fellow French deep pockets beginning to sweat? Lawmakers in France’s National Assembly have just gi…

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Millionaires urge MPs “tax us, the super rich” to avoid cuts and invest in Britain. The van will be in the southwest this afternoon. Report to follow

“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK who are taking their campaign out on the road ahead of the Government’s Spring Statement. Patriotic Millionaires UK has commissioned a fleet of mobile billboards to tour towns and cities across the country to tell people and constituency MPs: a tax of two percent on wealth above £10 million could raise £460m a week for our country’s crumbling finances. This single tax reform w…