The movement to overhaul America’s tax code and have millionaires and billionaires forfeit their fair share has a passionate, if unexpected, advocate: Abigail Disney, a relative of Walt Disney and heiress to one of the entertainment world’s largest fortunes.
Disney, a filmmaker and philanthropist who has long been an outspoken critic of massive generational wealth, took to the stage on Tuesday, or Tax Day, when one third of Americans usually scramble to file their taxes at the last minute. But for Disney, Tax Day 2023 was an opportunity to once again slam the tax code that she says preserves a disproportionate share of wealth in the upper echelons of the country’s income classes, and to remind lawmakers that millionaires like herself would be happy to pay more.
