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FDR Must Be Smiling
Biden’s plan to create jobs and tax the rich is a good deal bolder than it looks at first glance.
President Joe Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Franklin D. Roosevelt. The president proudly displays a portrait of FDR in the Oval Office.
More significantly, he’s announced the most ambitious plan since FDR’s New Deal for enhancing the well-being of working Americans while trimming the fortunes of America’s super rich. The president has promised to fund his big plans for infrastructure, jobs, and education entirely with taxes on the top.
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A protest outside of Jeff Bezos home in New York will urge him to back a wealth tax.
The protests are happening on Tax Day and are run by a group called Patriotic Millionaires.
In addition to the protest, the group sponsored billboards in D.C. and New York urging tax reform. As a millionaire, tax me more. That s the motto of members of the Patriotic Millionaires group, which is organizing protests and mobile billboards on Tax Day encouraging higher taxes for the rich.
The three mobile billboards, which feature videos of well-known billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, will drive through New York City and Washington, D.C. on Monday, Tax Day. In a press release, the group said that the aim of the events is challenging the faces of wealth inequality in this country and calling for higher taxes on the rich.
Tax the rich - us! Pro-tax millionaires rally in NYC and Washington DC in FAVOR of Biden s plan for higher rates on the country s biggest earners
The group, the Patriotic Millionaires, parked billboard trucks with tax-the-rich slogans outside the homes of Jeff Bezos, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell
The events come after Biden and Democrats announced plans to raise trillions of dollars in additional taxes
The taxes are intended for the country s highest earners
The most recent announced hikes are intended to pay for Biden s $1.8 trillion human infrastructure bill