Historian shames billionaires in Davos: You do charity, but you don't pay taxes (Video)

A panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos has become sensational, as a Dutch historian welcomed the billionaires gathered there for not paying taxes, writes Periscope.

In a video distributed tens of thousands of times, Rutger Bregman, author of the book Uptoy for Realists, complains that gathering in the popular Swiss village has not addressed the key issue in the fight for more equality: the failure of wealthy people to pay their taxes.

He says 1,000 and 500 people had travellers to Davos with private planes to listen to David Attenborough talking about climate change, but none of them were talking about tax hikes on rich people.

I hear people speaking the language of participation, justice, equality and transparency, but say nobody raises the real problem of tax evasion, right?

I feel like I'm at a firehouse conference where no one is allowed to talk about water. ”

The industry needs to stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes”, he adds, citing the high tax regime of the years in America as an example to discredit businesspeople's arguments in Davos that said high taxation would not succeed.” /Periscopi