My name is Morris Pearl. I'm the chairperson of the Patriotic Millionaires.

Can I call you Morris? What should I call you?

You can call me Morris?

If you saw Morris Pearl walking down the street, you probably wouldn't think to yourself,

that looks like a millionaire.

You know, different people take different

approaches. You decide to be a journalist. I decided to go into structured finance. Do you like

being known as a millionaire? I don't mind. The funny thing about being a millionaire is that

everyone wants to be one, but once you are one, you probably don't want to talk about it.

Even if you're Morris Pearl, who's in charge of a group of people who call themselves the patriotic millionaires.

When we do have some kind of group meeting with our members, the complaints are always about the name.

Wow, we could sign up more people if we just change the name of the group to, you know, responsible Americans or something.

This name, though, it's intentionally provocative. You know, with these business cards, say

patriotic millionaires, I can get a meeting with pretty much anybody I want to meet with. You know,

so I get to know the Speaker of the House and the head of the Democratic National Committee and,

you know, people want to meet with me all the time. You know, I get to go on slate once in a while. Whenever Morris meets up with a politician or a journalist, he's there to talk

about one thing, taxes. He wants to pay more. Yeah. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been getting credit for demanding the rich pay more.

Yeah.

But Morris has been asking the U.S. government to send him a bigger tax bill for years.

That's what I'm for.

He's got money. He likes his money. But he's worried about the growing gap between people like him and everyone else.

We're going more and more towards a kind of society with some people and some other people.

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