Climate activists, anti-World Economic Forum (WEF) demonstrators and millionaires calling for higher taxes on the rich joined forces at a demonstration in Davos on Sunday, ahead of the opening of the WEF in Switzerland on Monday. “We really want to reduce this level of wealth inequality in the world that’s so corrosive to society,” Patriotic Millionaires U.K. member Phil White said, holding a sign saying “Tax the Rich.”
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