When people talk about Abigail Disney, the grandneice of Walt Disney, it’s usually because the heiress has surfaced once again to tell the country how much wealth people like her should hand over to Washington in taxes.
The irony is that she’s perfectly free to cut a check to the Treasury today — yet instead of doing that, she’s lobbying Congress to force everyone else to follow her lead.
Abigail Disney Can Already Pay More — So Why Doesn’t She?
Abigail Disney spent last week in Washington at a Patriotic Millionaires conference, pushing lawmakers to raise tax rates on high earners. During the event, she quipped about her social life suffering: “My dinner-invitation card is not full.”
She followed that with her usual refrain.
“We don’t need any more money,” she said. “We can see that pretty clearly.”
Abigail Disney in an interview – YouTube, Life Stories
Great. If she personally thinks she has more than she needs, there is an established federal process for voluntarily giving the government additional funds. She doesn’t need Congress to compel anyone else to join her.
But that’s not the plan. Her agenda is about setting tax policy for every American who has more than she believes they deserve.
She Wants Higher Rates for Everyone in Her Bracket — Not Just Herself
Disney’s preferred policies include:
- A surtax on all income over $1 million
- Raising capital gains taxes to match wage taxes
- Penalizing businesses that don’t pay what she considers acceptable wages
- Making the first $45,000 of income tax-free
She explains her view of investment income this way: “When I get capital gains, it’s ’cause I’m sitting on my tookus. I mean, it’s literally the opposite of taxing work.”
A Beauty and the Beast bedroom in a AIRBnB Near Disney World – AirBnB
But again — if she’s bothered by her own tax bill, nothing is stopping her from paying more right now. The push isn’t voluntary; it’s compulsory. That’s the real distinction critics point out.
Abigail Disney’s Moral Pitch Doesn’t Line Up With Reality
Disney frames her proposals with moral urgency.
“We can afford to pay more in taxes,” she says.
A dessert from the Garden View Tea Room at the Grand Floridian Resort in Walt Disney World – Photo Credit: That Park Place
But she doesn’t speak for everyone with wealth — nor for the small business owners, investors, and entrepreneurs who would be hit by the policies she champions.
Walt Disney built an empire through capitalism, risk-taking, and rewarding innovation. Abigail Disney’s approach is the opposite: lobbying for a government mandate instead of leading by example.
She’s Been on This Crusade for Decades
Abigail Disney’s origin story traces back to a 1987 screening of Wall Street. She remembers being horrified that audiences cheered the iconic greed sermon.
“I’m thinking he’s the bad guy,” she admitted. “There’s like an eruption in the theater. Literally people went crazy, hooting and hollering. This was like the best thing they’d ever heard in their lives.”
Walt Animatronic from Disneyland
That reaction shaped her worldview and sent her down a path of activism that distances her from much of her own family.
Disney later said critics struggle to believe her motivations.
“It turns out that it is that hard to believe that someone would actually do something for the greater good and not in their own self-interest,” she said.
Of course, critics counter that insisting other people pay more taxes isn’t exactly selfless — it’s legislative advocacy that affects millions who didn’t ask for her representation.
Her Wealth Commentary Goes Even Further
In a separate IMF/World Bank appearance, Abigail Disney said, “I can only speak to my own experience.”
And that experience led her to conclude: “There is such a thing as too much money. And it’s bad for the world, for sure. But it’s also bad for the people who own it. … It is painful, soul-crushing, alienating, and morally corrosive.”
The statue of Walt Disney in Dreamer’s Point in EPCOT at Walt Disney World – Photo Credit: Marvin Montanaro
If she truly believes her wealth is harmful, she could divest or donate until she reaches a level she finds morally acceptable. But, alas, she has not.
She’s Even Alarmed About Trillionaires
AbiGail Disney continued her commentary on extreme wealth by decrying the very idea of a trillionaire.
“It’s hard to watch us get here because I don’t hear very many people feeling revolted by the idea of a trillionaire,” she said. “It would take the average worker 16 million years to get to a trillion dollars. Sixteen million years is longer than there have been human beings.”
Abigail Disney smiling in an interview – YouTube, Life Stories
These lines are designed to shock, but they avoid the real conversation: Disney’s own fortune comes from the success of a company built through free-market vision and discipline — not government-mandated wealth redistribution.
Walt Disney Was a Capitalist — Abigail Is Not
The disconnect is impossible to ignore.
Walt Disney believed in entrepreneurial reward. He reinvested profits into innovation, took personal financial risks, and built an entire industry by embracing opportunity.
Walt Disney in Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (1966), Walt Disney Productions
Abigail Disney, by contrast, uses the fortune his innovation created to advocate for policies he never would have supported.
No one is stopping Abigail Disney from paying more taxes. But what she’s demanding is that everyone else be forced to do the same — whether they agree or not.
How do you feel about Abigail Disney and her feelings on taxes? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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Typical liberal communist bonkers.
Taxation is theft, and that’s the only thing I still believe that libertarianism got right. That said, if the government really wanted to make taxation fair they’d just establish a national flat sales tax and abolish all other taxes. The rich would obviously pay more since they spend more money on more things, and provided there’s no loopholes for yachts and mansions and other things the rich usually purchase they’d pay far more than the average American. It’d also make sure that the 50+ million illegals here in the US paid their fair share until ICE rounds them up. Plus we wouldn’t need the 100,000 new IRS agents that Biden hired to monitor every financial transaction over $500. And those IRS agents wouldn’t have to lose their jobs since they could just be converted to ICE agents. Of course this will never happen, just like they’ll never make it a felony to hire or rent to illegals, because it’d actually work for the intended purpose.
Stupid is as stupid does. T W A T
Why’s it always the women? The twat daughters, that are interviewed in their hot-tubs, or Ibiza, always giving this particular take?
Of course, she could just pay more if she truly cared about this rather than trying (unsuccessfully clearly) to shame other wealthy people to pay more in taxes. And, of course she ignores that the top 1% already pay the majority of our taxes. But, what I believe is the real question that few people address in this debate is who is making the decisions with the $ that’s currently being sent to the government and who would be making the decisions with the extra $ she wants confiscated. Those taxes would go (and currently do go) into the hands of people who make terrible, moronic, wasteful and often fraudulent decisions about how to spend the $. The taxes would go to people who have already demonstrated they don’t know how to spend within a budget, who have overspent all of us into $38 trillion in debt (and that’s just on the federal level). Do I want $ to stay in the hands of people who have shown they can use the capital they have to create new businesses, spur innovation, invent products that serve all of us, create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Or, do I want even more $ to go to people who have, very literally, no idea how to deploy capital usefully. (But, certainly do know how to go into a public service job making $150K and come away with $millions of their own within a few years…..)
Taxation is theft and she’s a moron.