To our fellow millionaires and billionaires,
If you’re participating in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, you’re going to be joining an exclusive group of people looking for an answer to the question, ‘How do we work together and restore trust?’
You’re not going to find the answer in a private forum, surrounded by other millionaires and billionaires and the world’s most powerful people. If you’re paying attention, you’ll find that you’re part of the problem.
Trust – in politics, in society, in one another – is not built in tiny side rooms only accessible by the very richest and most powerful. It’s not built by billionaire space travelers who make a fortune out of a pandemic but pay almost nothing in taxes and provide poor wages for their workers. Trust is built through accountability, through well-oiled, fair, and open democracies that provide good services and support all their citizens.
And the bedrock of a strong democracy is a fair tax system. A fair tax system.
— source intaxwetrust.org