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: What we’ve learned in the five years since January 6th
Yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of one of the most shameful days in American history: the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Time has not diluted our conviction that what we witnessed five years ago was an unprecedented attack on American democracy fueled by Donald Trump’s lies.
For our last Closer Look of 2025, we wanted to reflect on the year we’ve had by sharing our top five most read Closer Looks of the year, along with a few of our personal favorites. We’ll also share some notable hits we had in our traditional earned media and social media campaigns.
Like many Americans, one of our favorite films to watch this time of year is Frank Capra’s 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life. Outside of being a holiday classic, it is consistently ranked as one of the greatest movies ever made.
When we think about the holidays and the season of giving, we can’t help but feel some nostalgia for Toys “R” Us, the toy superstore which closed its doors in 2018. But in all honesty that nostalgia brings with it anger towards the two-word culprit responsible for Toys “R” Us’ demise: private equity.
President Trump can’t seem to make up his mind as to whether America is suffering an affordability crisis. One day he declares himself the “AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT” on social media for his efforts to lower prescription drug prices. Three days later, he says that affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody” and is a “fake narrative” and “con job” cooked up by Democrats.
That’s a Wrap: Patriotic Millionaires’ 2025 Fall Member Summit
Last week, our millionaire members flocked to Washington, D.C., from every corner of the country to do two hugely important things: discuss the biggest problem plaguing America today—MONEY—and get the message out about the solution we have to it: The MONEY Agenda.
A Closer Look: Obscene CEO pay is bad for business and society
CEOs getting paid 281 times more than their workers is most assuredly a problem. But one CEO receiving a trillion-dollar pay package that’s 17 million times more than what their workers are paid is a whole different story.
A Closer Look: Zohran gave Democrats a blueprint to win
We’ve been saying this for years, but Zohran Mamdani’s victory last night in the New York City mayoral election made it abundantly clear: economic populism is the way forward for Democrats to win back the affections of working people.
As we enter the final days of October and nearly a month into the government shutdown, it’s worth taking time to examine the economic activity in the United States and what we can anticipate in the coming months.
