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I’d love to see a poll of millionaires to see what the split is of in favour vs not in favour of them being taxed more.
68% according to the article
We're sort of used to people not reading the articles (I haven't. May in a moment), but did OP not read it?
I'd love to know where this happened and see a photo of the message they projected. What building did they project it onto, I wonder?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of British multimillionaires have projected a message on to the Treasury building and the Bank of England in advance of Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement on Wednesday, saying: “Tax our wealth”.
Phil White, a former business consultant and member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, said: “The whole country knows that we need a serious injection of capital to get us back on track.
We have a potential £423m a week, which is currently absent from national investment revenue, because we don’t tax extreme wealth.
Instead we can increase investment in Britain and take the pressure off working people by taxing the super-rich.”
A YouGov survey found that three-quarters of Britons support a wealth tax.
Research by Patriotic Millionaires of those with investable assets of £1m found that 68% of the richest people in the country supported the introduction of wealth taxes.
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Public support of policy <> actual support of policy
When you've got backdoors, you use those to get what you want done.
But since the billionaires don't want to be taxed, nothing happens...
Will the government or a charity refuse to take their money if they voluntarily paid more taxes? Just a thought, I have no idea.
I presume they could band together and donate through charitable means as well. Take whatever extra taxes they're calling for and donate that amount straight to the charity sector or NHS.
Yea they can donate, but when it's a choice other sickeningly rich people can still horde money.
They can do both, right? Donate and call for change?