A Closer Look: The Critical Role of Consistency in Tax Policy Advocacy
It appears some of our allies have taken a liking to the Swiss cheese tax code that Trump and Republicans made worse with their 2025 tax law. As for us, we like to think we have a sharper palate.
A YouGov poll on California millionaires found support among the group for raising taxes on the wealthy, including majority support for Prop 40, the one-time, 5% tax on billionaires.
A Closer Look: No Tax on Everything—The Tax Mess Trump Has Left Us
I wanted to take the pen for this week’s Closer Look to share a piece that I wrote for my Substack last month in support of the Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act. I designed this legislation as the second part of the Patriotic Millionaires’ legislative platform, The MONEY Agenda.
A Member Spotlight: It’s high time for some common sense on taxes
My name is Todd Oppenheimer, and I’m one of 200 high-net-worth members of the Patriotic Millionaires. We usually write our weekly “Closer Look” newsletter in the collective voice of all our members, but this week the organization gave me the pen for a new offering we’ve started called “A Member Spotlight,” which offers a deep dive into issues around economic inequality from the perspective of one of our millionaire members.
A Closer Look: Demystifying the Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act
My name is Holli Woodings, and I’m the Vice President of Government Affairs here at Patriotic Millionaires where I oversee our legislative, policy, and political work. Previously I’ve served as the President of Boise City Council, as a State Representative in the Idaho Legislature, and as a Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Civil Discourse here in Washington, DC.
A Closer Look: We’re two steps closer to a rich, stable, and free country
Americans deserve an economy that, at a minimum, has fair and equitable rules and that guarantees them enough stability to afford their basic needs. And over the past week, Americans are now two steps closer to getting that sort of economy, thanks to new legislation introduced on Capitol Hill.
A Closer Look: The Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act is the greatest thing since sliced bread
If you’re looking for a bold yet surprisingly simple tax framework that has the ability to immediately stabilize the economic lives of millions of Americans, today is your lucky day. Or if you’re merely looking for the greatest thing since sliced bread, you’ve also hit the jackpot.
A Closer Look: States are ramping up efforts to tax the super rich
It’s clearer than ever that the effects of the national rise in economic inequality are spilling over into local communities. With the federal government lacking the necessary urgency to respond to and address the crisis, states are taking matters into their own hands and proposing their own millionaire taxes. From coast to coast, officials have proposed all sorts of measures to raise the wealthy’s tax bills.
A Closer Look: Trump gives the economy a “W.” We give it a “K.”
According to President Trump, the state of America’s union is STRONG, the Golden Age is upon us, and “we’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it.” All true…for multimillionaires like us. For the 86% of Americans who are worried about the price of groceries? Not so much.
A Closer Look: How early labor laws excluded Black Americans
My name is Dr. Kaitlyn Henderson. I joined the Patriotic Millionaires four months ago as the organization’s Senior Director of Wage Policy and Legislative Affairs. I came from Oxfam America, where I was the Senior Researcher leading their domestic portfolio on wages and labor and the staff-elected board member.
A Closer Look: What the Epstein files tell us about extreme wealth
Most of the reporting around the Epstein files has centered on the salacious and horrific allegations against members of Epstein’s elite inner circle contained in the troves of documents. Yet, there has been little public discussion about what the files reveal about how our “Second Gilded Age,” with its unprecedented concentration of wealth, not only shields perpetrators from accountability but makes their crimes possible in the first place.
A Closer Look: A lot to gain by raising taxes on the rich
For this week’s Closer Look, we’ll dive deeper into what The Washington Post Editorial Board got wrong about taxing the rich and income tax rates. Besides the fact they are blatantly shilling for their billionaire-owner Jeff Bezos, we think the Editorial Board is off-base on multiple fronts on their arguments.
A Closer Look: Here’s the skinny on the California wealth tax ballot measure
In late October, news broke that organizers in California had filed a measure, the “2026 Billionaire Tax Act,” to appear on the November 2026 ballot that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the state’s billionaires. Since then, there has been a relentless onslaught of panicked headlines that the proposal will lead the Golden State’s 200 or so billionaires to flee en masse.
A Closer Look: Time to win back our democracies before it’s too late
If there is one thing we want the world leaders at Davos this week to know, it’s this: it’s time to win back our democracies and shared futures by taxing the super rich before it’s too late.
Four years ago, we decided to cut America’s Gordian Knot by starting our Great Economy Project in Whiteville, North Carolina. This led to the creation of the Columbus County Deciders. Now, after years of on-the-ground work, we’re seeing our efforts pay off.
