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.
On Monday, the world marked two important beginnings: the start of President Donald Trump’s second term and the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – better known as simply “Davos.” What we witnessed of the attendees at one event made us all the more confident in our demands of the attendees at the other.
It’s hard to believe that we are just 12 days away from Election Day. The Patriotic Millionaires have never minced words, and we’re not going to start now: the stakes are extraordinarily high.
If you were a rich Wisconsinite striving to get even richer and you had little regard for intellectual honesty or the well-being of your fellow citizens, you would agree with Sen. Ron Johnson’s remarks at last month’s Senate Finance Committee hearing. Otherwise, you’d find the senator’s views troublesome, to say the least.
We’ve known for a while now that our desire for lawmakers around the world to raise taxes on wealthy people like us isn’t fringe. But now, we officially have the numbers to back it up – and a blueprint for how international leaders can institute minimum standards for taxing the global rich.
