A Closer Look: The path to our first trillionaire started 250 years ago
We feel it’s a bit ironic—and, frankly, eerie—that we’re witnessing the birth of our first trillionaire on the eve of America’s 250th birthday. For this week’s Closer Look, we want to highlight the Founding Fathers’ complicated role in delivering America its first trillionaire 250 years after they declared independence from the British monarchy.
A Closer Look: Young people need the Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act
As a still-young (kinda) person myself, and the mother of a young person who will be starting his college journey next year, I worry a lot about what we are doing—and more importantly, not doing!—to ensure that young people still have a chance at the American Dream.
It's only been five weeks, but the good news on unions just keeps piling up—so much so that we feel we are in for a repeat of the summer of 2023. You may remember that was what organizers called “Hot Labor Summer,” given the historic victories that unions notched for workers across a variety of industries.
Here are a few of the ways that the Working Americans Tax Cut Act, or WATCA for short (S. 4083/HR 7937) provides a boost to hardworking low-income households while avoiding the pitfalls of other proposals.
A Closer Look: The path to our first trillionaire started 250 years ago
We feel it’s a bit ironic—and, frankly, eerie—that we’re witnessing the birth of our first trillionaire on the eve of America’s 250th birthday. For this week’s Closer Look, we want to highlight the Founding Fathers’ complicated role in delivering America its first trillionaire 250 years after they declared independence from the British monarchy.
A Closer Look: Young people need the Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act
As a still-young (kinda) person myself, and the mother of a young person who will be starting his college journey next year, I worry a lot about what we are doing—and more importantly, not doing!—to ensure that young people still have a chance at the American Dream.
It's only been five weeks, but the good news on unions just keeps piling up—so much so that we feel we are in for a repeat of the summer of 2023. You may remember that was what organizers called “Hot Labor Summer,” given the historic victories that unions notched for workers across a variety of industries.
Here are a few of the ways that the Working Americans Tax Cut Act, or WATCA for short (S. 4083/HR 7937) provides a boost to hardworking low-income households while avoiding the pitfalls of other proposals.
We saw the interview that you gave last week to Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” and wanted to respond to some of the things you said that relate to our three-pronged mission to tax the rich, pay the people, and spread the power. There are places we agree, and areas we do not. We hope that you will approach this letter with an open mind, and consider joining us in our work.
A Closer Look: Billionaires shouldn’t get megaphones in our elections
It's been a while since we devoted a whole Closer Look to the issue of money in politics and the corresponding need for campaign finance reform. But given the tsunami of spending we’re witnessing these days in just the primary elections leading up to the November midterms, we think now is as good a time as ever.
A Closer Look: There is no such thing as a “self-made” millionaire
One of the most common critiques we receive when we tell people we want our taxes raised is: “Rich people worked hard for their wealth and deserve to keep it. Taxing them more would be akin to theft and disincentivize people from innovating and starting new businesses.” Our response? While rich people certainly deserve their wealth (to varying extents), no one is entirely “self-made” and therefore should not be allowed to skirt their civic duty to pay their fair share in taxes.
A Closer Look: Why we (still) won’t write voluntary checks to the IRS
Without doubt, one of the biggest, most common criticisms we encounter whenever we say we want our taxes raised is this: “If you want to pay more taxes, why don’t you just write a voluntary check to the IRS?” It’s a common response from our detractors on our social media posts. This is also a common question that members at our sister organizations in the United Kingdom and Canada encounter as well, albeit with their national equivalents to the IRS (HMRC and CRA, respectively).
A Closer Look: It’s workers over billionaires this May Day
If you haven’t checked your calendar today, it’s May 1st, more commonly known as May Day. You may be celebrating this day as a festival with ancient origins with rituals like flower wreaths, poles, and bonfires to mark the beginning of summer. Or, if you’re like us at Patriotic Millionaires, you’re celebrating International Workers’ Day.
With so many exciting developments lately, we haven't had much time to properly highlight the incredible media moments we’ve had, particularly for things outside of our Symposium and two bills. For this week’s Closer Look, we’d like to give those media moments the spotlight they fully deserve.
A Closer Look: That’s a wrap on our 7th annual Spring Symposium! 🎬
In case you were not keeping up with us online over the past few days, we are pleased to report that the Patriotic Millionaires’ seventh annual Spring Symposium was a smashing success this week!
