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Who Wants to Tax a Millionaire?

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As Democrats try to find an economic message that can win in 2020, a group of like-minded millionaires is making the rounds, telling any politicians who will listen, “We want to pay more in taxes.” Why, though?

Guest: Morris Pearl, chair of Patriotic Millionaires

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.


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0:00.0

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0:09.4

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0:27.4

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0:31.5

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0:35.1

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0:40.2

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0:46.2

too. Just shoot me a DM at Mary's Desk on Twitter. One more thing, I'm getting ready for Slate Day

0:52.5

today. That means today's show is a repeat. It's one of our favorites aired back in February. So enjoy it.

1:04.3

My name is Morris Pearl. I'm the chairperson of the Patriotic Millionaires. Can I call you Morris? What should I call you?

1:11.5

You can call me Morris? If you saw Morris Pearl walking down the street, you probably wouldn't

1:16.0

think to yourself, that looks like a millionaire. You know, different people take different approaches.

1:20.8

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

1:26.2

millionaire? I don't mind.

1:30.8

The funny thing about being a millionaire is that everyone wants to be one, but once you are one,

1:35.7

you probably don't want to talk about it.

1:37.9

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

1:41.7

the patriotic millionaires.

1:43.2

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

1:47.4

about the name.

1:48.2

Wow, we could sign up more people if we just change the name of the group to, you know,

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