Taxing the richest of the rich will benefit all Americans, a group of the wealthiest Americans says in an open letter to the 2020 presidential candidates.
In a Medium blog post published Sunday, the group of 18 ultra-rich individuals — including George Soros, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, heiress Abigail Disney and Molly Munger (the daughter of Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie) — argue that taxing the richest 1/10 of the richest 1% of Americans is not only fair, it’s vital.