The super-rich members, including Ben and Jerry’s ice cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield and Disney heir Abigail Disney, called on “our governments to raise taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently.” “As COVID-19 strikes the world, millionaires like us have a critical role to play in healing our world,” the millionaires said in a letter. 

Among those adding their names to the letter are Sir Stephen Tindall, the founder of the Warehouse Group, New Zealand’s largest retailer; the British screenwriter and director Richard Curtis; and the Irish venture capitalist John O’Farrell, who made millions investing in Silicon Valley tech companies.