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These Millionaires Want to Tax the Rich, and They're Lobbying Working-class Voters
We really wanted to focus on areas that have working class people,” said Cat Hadley, the director of Patriotic Millionaires’ Great Economy Project, which has started similar programs in Mount Airy, North Carolina, and Richland, Wisconsin. “We need them in this movement.”
Anderson said he hopes that Whiteville’s residents feel that he and his team did a “fair job” of reflecting their town in the documentary. “I didn’t want to make a film that folks in Whiteville didn’t recognize,” he said. “I wanted people to be able to recognize themselves and their town in this film.”
Local residents came to hear about the rich exploiting the poor through taxation and other means, including some interested in a minimum-wage increase. Others attending a meeting hosted by Patriotic Millionaires just seemed curious.
“I hope to have an open mind with things,” Lenise Lynch of Mount Airy said upon arriving for Tuesday night’s event at Old North State Winery downtown, which had been billed as a “How to Rig an Economy” presentation.
“We are thrilled with the effort in Mount Airy,” added Payne, who is based in Washington, D.C. “We have about 30 people who have signed up to be in the cohort, about an even mix of Republicans and Democrats.”
That response from those individuals has provided a solid foundation going forward, according to Payne.
“The next step is an organizing dinner with them where we talk about ways they can engage their neighbors and community,” she mentioned this week.
Today in Richland Center, Todd invites some local friends to talk about the Patriotic Millionaires. The Patriotic Millionaires are a national group of wealthy individuals who don’t feel that they’re being taxed enough. They’ve been giving seminars in Richland Center about how we as citizens can help to improve things for the average working family.
About a year ago, I got a flier in the mail about a Patriotic Millionaires informational meeting. Lured by the free food, I went and learned it was a group of millionaires who thought they should be taxed more, and were exposing all the tax loopholes they, and other millionaires were using to not pay their fair share of taxes, and often paid taxes at a lower rate than someone working a blue-collar job…
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