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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 17h

It's been a great day at the Clinton Square Fair & BBQ Cook-Off in Clinton, NC.

We’re here to spread the word about the cost-of-living tax cut for working families, funded by millionaires like our members.

Politicians say they support working people. We say: prove it.

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 19h

We’re at the Clinton Square Fair & BBQ Cook-Off in Sampson County today as part of our Flood the Red Zone: Save America campaign 🍔🌭🇺🇲

Our message is simple: no one working full-time should be taxed into poverty. We need a cost-of-living tax cut, paid for by millionaires.

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 1d

Texas State Rep @jamestalarico.bsky.social said it best: "The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.”

We need a political party that will come together for working people to beat the billionaires and get an economy they deserve.
patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

A birthday? In this economy?!

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 1d

From Wells Fargo bank tellers to Google engineers, workers across the country are waking up to the same truth: CEOs & shareholders won’t protect them, but unions can.

Whether in a bank, law firm, or tech company, every worker deserves a voice in the workplace. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The future of white-collar work may be unionized

Law firms, banks and tech companies are seeing an uptick in employees choosing to join unions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 2d

From the opening paragraph: "Pay-advance apps are marketed as a way to help workers living paycheck to paycheck pay for unexpected expenses, but workers are often using the apps to manage basic expenses like groceries, rent and other needs."

That's horrifying.

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 2d

We are in a sad, desperate state when workers already living paycheck to paycheck are forced to take out advances in order to pay for basic necessities.

Our country and economy cannot survive when a majority of people live on poverty wages. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/y...

Some Workers Are Turning to Pay-Advance Apps for Basic Expenses

www.nytimes.com

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 2d

It's time to set the record straight: rich people like us pay too little in taxes, working people pay too much in taxes, and bad political decisions gave us an economy that gives a minority group of ever-richer people the majority of its benefits.

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A birthday? In this economy?!

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

Right now, while Canadians who actually work for a living are paying taxes on 100% of their paycheck, rich Canadians who make their money via a few clicks in their brokerage account are only paying taxes on half the profits. That has to change.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

We would never deny that big things are hard to do!

But the alternative is a country where working Canadians dutifully pay their taxes and the uber-rich don't.

That's just not the kind of country we want to live in, and most people agree (about 80% of them in fact)
abacusdata.ca/wealth-tax-c...

Wealth tax? Canadians like the idea. - Abacus Data

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

It’s true, some wealth taxes have been tried and abandoned. Sometimes due to legitimate challenges, and sometimes due to billionaire funded lobbying and political campaigns to undermine them.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

Terence actually makes this point for us not one paragraph later! But pardon us if we’re not holding our breath for the benevolence of billionaires.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

That means universal requirements and standardized systems that allow governments to collect revenue predictably and fairly.

What Terence is describing is philanthropy via the CRA.
@patmillscanada.bsky.social organize to fix a broken system, not to do philanthropy.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

Sending money voluntarily does not solve the problem! Taxes should require those who have profited the most from investments in education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. to reinvest back into the economy and ensure those services stay well funded.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

Still not sure what a billionaire socialist utopia is supposed to be… but let's move on to Terry's main point.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to hear more from Sabina’s great piece with Ratna Omidvar…

bsky.app/profile/sabi...

Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 11d

In Canada, top 1% of wealth holders hold 24% of total wealth.
Meanwhile, PM Carney has an ‘austerity budget’, which will impact the disadvantaged.
Patriotic Millionaires Canada, which I am a board member of, estimated that a 3% tax on wealth over $100-million could raise $25-billion annually.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure what to say about this other than thanks for the amplification!

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

You should check out exactly how atypical here: macleans.ca/politics/tax...

I’m a Millionaire. Tax Me More, Please. - Macleans.ca

Wealthy Canadians like me can afford to pay extra for the greater good

macleans.ca

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

We're also not sure we'd call Avi a "typical tax evangelist".

In fact, we think he's pretty atypical!

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

First off: “socialist millionaires”.

Maybe he just wants to call everything he dislikes socialist, but words have meaning.

Making billionaires pay taxes is not actually socialist! It has nothing to do with communal ownership of the means of production.

So, don't worry Terry!

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 3d

Wow! Someone's cranky!

While we appreciate the free press from Terence, let's see if we can improve his mood point by point.

financialpost.com/opinion/tere...

Terence Corcoran: Help! I’m rich, so tax me more. Pretty please…

Here’s a message for socialist millionaires: send in the money voluntarily, or shut up. Read more from Terence Corcoran

financialpost.com

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 3d

Billionaires are bankrolling culture wars to keep us divided.

Why? Because they’d rather you ignore the real issue at hand: working people pay too much in taxes while the wealthy don’t pay enough.

The good news: we have a solution. The MONEY Agenda ➡️ patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 4d

His new book, Burned by Billionaires, shines a light on how we ended up here in the first place and how we can change course.

There is a solution, and it starts with taxing the mega-rich.

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 4d

Our board member Chuck Collins has it right: "We should be concerned about an economic system that funnels so much wealth upward to the billionaires."

They are stealing wages while working people continue to feel the pain of paying higher prices with stagnant income.

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 4d

What's more is that even during the past five years of economic instability, the stock market has only continued to grow and benefit just a small number of Americans:

10% of the population owns 93% of stock market wealth.

Let that sink in.

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 4d

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew 54%.

That's not a design flaw of our system. It's the system working as it is currently intended to. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality

As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

www.theguardian.com

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