You may think that Bill Gates is doing the world an enormous service by giving away nearly all of his fortune over the next twenty years. But the truth is that he’d be doing us all an even greater service if he spent a portion of his remaining time and money doing everything he can to change our country’s political economy to ensure that wealth isn’t concentrated in the hands of so few people and that, in the future, no single individual is able to attain his level of wealth and power in the first place.
It’s not often we need to email you on a Monday, so if we are, it has to be for a good reason. And believe us, we have one: May 11, 2025 marked the official launch of Patriotic Millionaires Canada!
America’s Most Regressive Tax Levy: Our Tax on Capital Gains
Our current effective tax rate on capital gains shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge — Buy–Hold for Decades–Sell — that’s driving America’s wealth concentration.
There won’t be “empty chairs” at our Expert Town Hall
People are showing up in droves at town halls around the country to express their outrage over all the damage that Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their DOGE cronies are wreaking. Unfortunately, they’re not getting much in the way of answers from their elected officials. That’s why we’ve decided to host our own Expert Town Hall – “How to Beat the Broligarchs” – on Monday, April 7th, beginning at 9:00 AM ET.
Democrats Have Six Months to Get Their Act Together
Democrats had three months to get their act together and completely blew it. Now, they have another six months to try again – and there’s too much on the line for them to fail.
Senate Democrats Must Block Republicans’ Spending Bill
If you’re losing a battle against an enemy but have a sword in your hand, it should go without saying that you should use that sword to defend yourself. But we’re going to say it anyway for the sake of Senate Democrats.
Earlier this month, one of our members, Abigail Disney, spoke at an inaugural event, “Tax Justice and Solidarity: Towards an Inclusive Sustainable Common Home,” hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation in Vatican City.
Please Tell Whitmer and Brinks to Save the Raise in Michigan!
If you are just tuning into the cacophonous hammering of one of the final nails in the Democratic Party’s coffin, don’t worry, you still have time to stop the economic and political fiasco unfolding in Michigan before it’s too late.
Patriotic Millionaire to Governor Whitmer: Don’t Sign Senate Bill 8
I am writing to you to strongly ask you to NOT sign Senate Bill 8. I am a Michigander that lives in Oregon. I pay more in state taxes to Michigan than I do to Oregon, so I feel I have a say about what values the state of Michigan is run on.
Whitmer Makes Her Choice: Presidential Material or Empty (Pink) Suit?
Happy Presidents’ Day. Let’s talk about 2028 presidential hopeful Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. To the many top Democrats hoping this pink-suited, plain-spoken Midwesterner can pull a victorious phoenix from the ashes of the Democratic party, a note of caution: “Big Gretch” is three days away from tossing a bucket of ice cold water on your barely smoldering embers.
