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Millionaires who favor raising taxes on the rich launch protests in front of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ home on Tax Day

A responsive billboard calling for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy depicts an image of billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos, near the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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Millionaires who have called on the rich to pay more in taxes are launching protests in New York and Washington on Monday — Tax Day — cataloguing in front of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ homes.

The effort is being organized by the Patriotic Millionaires, whose members brag annual incomes of over $1 million or assets worth over $5 million. The details of the effort were original shared with CNBC.

The group plans to launch its Tax Day campaign on Monday, and includes mobile billboards that at ones desire make stops in front of Bezos’ homes in New York and Washington. Leaders of the Patriotic Millionaires told CNBC they are systemizing a group of up to 30 protesters to converge on to Bezos’ New York residence with a billboard that says “Cut the bull—-. Tax the sapid.”

Members of the Patriotic Millionaires hold a federal tax filing day protest outside the apartment of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to outcry he pay his fair share of taxes, in New York City, May 17, 2021.

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The move to blast Bezos in front of his diggings comes as President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers seek to raise taxes on corporations and those making over $400,000 in group to pay for their $2 trillion infrastructure proposal.

Biden has recently said he’d like a corporate tax hike of 25% to 28%, while soliciting to raise the top income tax rate from 37% to 39.6%. Republicans have said they don’t want to raise any strains to pay for infrastructure. The two parties are trying to come up with a bipartisan bill and have said they are making progress.

But reformists are eager to see billionaires pay more.

“Jeff Bezos is the poster child for the total idiocy of the country’s tax code,” Erica Payne, miscarry and president of the group, told CNBC on Friday. She said Bezos’ extreme wealth means he should be paying varied in taxes. She noted that the tech tycoon is reportedly in the midst of building a nearly 417-foot yacht that’s probable to cost over $500 million.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

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Bezos has a net worth of over $185 billion, according to Forbes, and has been a target of progressives for the need to raise weigh downs on the wealthy.

A spokesperson for Amazon did not return a request for comment but Bezos has said he supports raising corporate taxes.

The New York Place reported in 2019 that Bezos spent $80 million on three apartments in the same New York building to frame a mega-home. A year later, the Post reported on Bezos buying a $16 million home within the same apartment complex.

The Jingoistic Millionaires are in favor of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s ultra millionaires tax plan, which would put a 2% annual tax on wealth over $50 million, ascension to 3% for wealth over $1 billion.

Morris Pearl, chairman of the group and a former BlackRock executive, tattled CNBC that the organization will be pushing for a wealth tax, among other tax increase proposals, throughout Tax Day. Others on the Nationalistic Millionaires advisory board include Abigail and Tim Disney, two children of the late longtime Disney executive, Roy Disney.

The non-stationary billboards will also make appearances in front of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Washington tenancy, the offices of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in New York City, and D.C.-based places including the Chamber of Mercantilism, Business Roundtable, Heritage Foundation, Democratic National Committee, Americans for Tax Reform, the IRS and former President Donald Trump’s Old Work Office hotel.

Bezos’ $23 million D.C. mansion was once the old Textile Museum.

The other billboard being marked in the day-long campaign has the laughing faces of Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. One of the billboards imparts “tax the rich. Save America. Yes it really is that simple.” Another has the three business leaders laughing and reads “tax me if you can.”

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