Patriotic Millionaires

Arthur Delaney

One Percenter Calls For 'Enlightened Self Interest' To Avert Real Class Warfare

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.02.2011

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Some conservatives complain it's class warfare to harp on income inequality and to say the rich should pay higher taxes. Philadelphia's Dan Berger, an...

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The 1 Percent Indifferent to Their Indebtedness

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Social Security, Debt, Elizabeth Warren, Patriotic Millionaires, Medicaid, Super Committee, Bush Tax Cuts, Deficit, Deficit Super Committee, Medicare, Head Start, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, Brent T. White, The 99 Percent, Underwater Mortgages, The 1 Percent, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Americans don't like debt, including bills owed by their government. It weighs on them, even when it's to create jobs and speed recovery. That's why there was a deficit Super Committee. But for the majority of millionaires, incurring debt does not evoke anxiety.

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Lucia Graves

'Move To Somalia, Grover Norquist': Patriotic Millionaires

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, millionaires who want the government to tax them more, met with foremost anti-tax guru Grove...

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Millionaires Head To Capitol Hill To Lobby To Raise Taxes On Themselves

AP | By LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Lobbyists for a day, a band of millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to tax them more. They had a little trou...

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Bay Area Millionaires: 'Raise Our Taxes!'

Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.03.2011

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At last week's Occupy Wall Street San Francisco protest, demonstrators gathered in the Financial District chanting, "Why is life a bitch? 'Cause we do...

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Warren Buffett's Call: Tax Wealth for the Common Good

Chuck Collins | Posted 10.16.2011

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Chuck Collins

We now need ten thousand more like Warren Buffett to speak up, people with incomes over $250,000 that know in their hearts that they should pay more.

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Why Do We Ignore Millionaires' Offers to Pay More Taxes?

Bradley T. Borden | Posted 08.13.2011

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Bradley T. Borden

While a political battle rages over fixing the federal deficit, simple, but potentially very effective, offers to help solve our problems are going unheeded.

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Arthur Delaney

Why Don't Millionaires Who Want Higher Taxes Just Donate Money To The Government?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Deficit, Patriotic Millionaires, Public Debt, Income Inequality, Tax Policy Center, Budget Deficit, Bake Sales, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The self-described Patriotic Millionaires who want the government to close its budget gaps with higher taxes on the rich think it's ridi...

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Arthur Delaney

What Millionaires Did With Their Bush Tax Cuts: 'I Built A Dance Floor In My House'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Agenda Project, Patriotic Millionaires, Millionaires, Elections 2012, Wealth for the Common Good, Paul Egerman, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Paul Egerman isn't certain how many millions he's saved from the tax cuts enacted during the George W. Bush administration in the early ...

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Ohio Hotel Says Broken Flag Not Mourning Bin Laden's Death

AP | Posted 11.15.2011

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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — An Ohio hotel has been fending off angry phone calls because a broken rope on its flagpole led some to think the business wa...

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On Millionaires; Bolsheviks; Greedy, Selfish Bastards; and the President of the United States

Erica Payne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Erica Payne

As pundits argue over President Obama's first two years in office (compromise or capitulation?) and House and Senate members prepare for a new distrib...

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The Selfish Rich of the 21st Century

Jim Worth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Worth

The rich have paid nothing for the destruction their advocacy has caused. Most sit idly by, letting the Republicans fight their unpatriotic battles. But there is hope.

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Friday Talking Points [147] -- Democrats Fighting The Good Fight

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that was a pretty good week for Democrats. Maybe it's just the subject matter I've been tackling t...

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