Millionaires Calling For Emergency Tax On Billionaires!

While the global COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for most people in the world, for a select group of people it has been a boom time: billionaires. That group has seen their wealth skyrocket by a combined $5.5 trillion since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data from Oxfam, the Fight Inequality Alliance, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Patriotic Millionaires. And it’s those groups that are now calling for a one-time tax on billionaires to help stem the devastating health and economic impact of the pandemic on the rest of the people on the planet.

The groups are calling for a one-time 99% tax on the wealth that billionaires accumulated during the pandemic, which would raise $5.4 trillion, which in turn would cover the cost of fully vaccinating every person on the planet while also cover giving a $20,000 cash grant to everyone on the planet who has become unemployed during the pandemic.

If a 99% tax on billionaires’ pandemic wealth gains seems like a lot, Oxfam and the other groups point out that even after the one-time tax, the world’s 2,690 billionaires would still be $55 billion richer than before the pandemic ravaged the globe.

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