Hello friends and welcome to the Bill Press Pod.

Well, here's something you probably thought you'd never hear anyone say,

please raise my taxes.

But actually, a growing number of people are saying just that these days.

People who can pay more taxes, people who think they should be paying more taxes,

and while Congress seems determined to keep cutting taxes for the wealthy,

people who actually lobby the Congress to make wealthy people like them pay more.

It's all about income inequality, which they believe is undermining the American economy

and creating a dangerous gap between the 1% and the other 99.

They call themselves the patriotic millionaires,

and they were founded by Erica Payne, a former deputy finance director of the DNC, who earned her MBA from Wharton.

We caught up with a very busy Erica Payne in her office in downtown Washington.

Eric is good to see you.

Nice to see you.

Thank you so much for joining us.

You are head of this organization called the Patriotic Millionaires, a founder of it.

What's the mission?

What's the goal?

What's it all about?

It's really straightforward.

Look, economic inequality has reached a crisis point.

It's reached a destabilizing point in the country. 71% of Americans think the economy is rigged. They're right. I don't know where the other 29% are, you know, but most of us have a clue that things have gone awry. It's gone awry in a lot of different areas. But this group thinks that if we just start with some really basic reform of the political economy,

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