I’m a millionaire who wants to be taxed to pay for COVID-19
DJAFFAR SHALCHI I am a multimillionaire business owner, and founder of a network of multimillionaires with a message to governments: tax us. The Covid-19 economic crisis did not create the world’s searing inequalities, but it has pulled the rich and the rest even further apart. To give just one example: ILO has revealed that workers have lost $3.7 trillion in the crisis, while Forbes magazine has revealed that billionaires have gained $3.9 trillion. The crisis has also shone a light on how inequalities weaken us all. Even before the crisis, we faced the scandal that over 5 million children under…