{"id":518601,"date":"2021-05-17T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=518601"},"modified":"2021-05-17T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:36:10","slug":"millionaires-who-support-raising-taxes-on-the-rich-protest-in-front-of-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millionaires-who-support-raising-taxes-on-the-rich-protest-in-front-of-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Millionaires Who Support Raising Taxes On The Rich Protest In Front Of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmillionaires-who-support-raising-taxes-on-the-rich-protest-in-front-of-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=518601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tax-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Some millionaires, it turns out, want to pay <em>more<\/em> taxes.<\/p>\n<p>A group of millionaires on Monday \u2013 national Tax Day, when millions of Americans have to send their hard-earned cash to the federal government \u2013 protested in front of Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos\u2019 homes in Washington, D.C., and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The effort was organized by the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of people who have annual incomes of more than $1 million or assets worth over $5 million, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/17\/pro-tax-millionaires-launching-protests-in-front-of-jeff-bezos-home.html\">reported<\/a>. The group \u201cplanned mobile billboards that will make stops in front of Bezos\u2019 homes in New York and Washington. Leaders of the Patriotic Millionaires told CNBC they are organizing a group of up to 30 protesters to converge on to Bezos\u2019 New York residence with a billboard that says \u2018Cut the bulls***. Tax the rich.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mobile billboards will also head to the homes of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the offices of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in New York City, along with other sites in D.C., including former President Donald Trump\u2019s Old Post Office hotel.<\/p>\n<p>One billboard shows Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk laughing and says, \u201cTax the rich. Save America. Yes it really is that simple.\u201d Another has the trio, again laughing, and says, \u201cTax me if you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order to pay for a $2 trillion infrastructure, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have been pushing to raise taxes on corporations \u2013 up to as high as 28% \u2013 and their CEOs, along with anyone making more than $400,000. Republicans aren\u2019t on board with the plan, yet progressives are pushing hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff Bezos is the poster child for the total idiocy of the country\u2019s tax code,\u201d Erica Payne, founder and president of the group, told CNBC, noting that Bezos \u2013 worth an estimated $185 billion \u2013 is building a 415-foot yacht expected to cost more than $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriotic Millionaires, it turns out, actually support the \u201cultra millionaires\u201d tax plan from Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s (D-MA) ultra millionaires tax plan. Under her proposal, anyone worth more than $50 million would pay an annual 2% tax, with billionaires paying 3% of their worth each year.<\/p>\n<p>The millionaires\u2019 campaign comes after some billionaires are pushing for the establishment of \u201cuniversal basic income,\u201d a government program that would give all citizens a set amount of taxpayer money, regardless of whether they have jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who runs Tesla and SpaceX, thinks people will need a universal basic income to survive in the future.\u00a0\u201cI think we\u2019ll end up doing universal basic income,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-universal-basic-income-2017-2\">told a crowd<\/a> at the World Government Summit in Dubai in 2017. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be necessary\u201d because of automation, which will replace millions of workers over the next 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to be clear. These are not things I wish will happen; these are things I think probably will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some millionaires, it turns out, want to pay more taxes.A group of millionaires on Monday \u2013 national Tax Day, when millions of Americans have to send their hard-earned cash to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278352,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tax-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Millionaires Who Support Raising Taxes On The Rich Protest In Front Of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 Home","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tax-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Millionaires Who Support Raising Taxes On The Rich Protest In Front Of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 Home","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}