Jeff Bezos, Politicians Among Top Targets Of Millionaire Protestors On Tax Day

This year’s tax deadline will see an unusual picket line outside a variety of locales in New York and Washington: millionaires protesting in favor of higher taxes on the rich.

The group Patriotic Millionaires has organized for 30 protestors, all millionaires, to picket Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ residences and several political offices, accompanied by mobile billboards.

Erica Payne, founder and president of the club, told CNBC that Bezos’ massive hoard showed how broken the tax system is. “Jeff Bezos is the poster child for the total idiocy of the country’s tax code,” she said.

Forbes estimates Bezos’ wealth at over $190 billion. Amazon representatives have declined to publicly comment on Monday’s protests, but Bezos has previously said he’s in favor of higher corporate taxes.

The protestors will also be stopping outside Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Washington residence, and the offices of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in New York City.

Also targeted are the D.C. offices for the Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Heritage Foundation, Democratic National Committee, Americans for Tax Reform, the IRS and former President Donald Trump’s Old Post Office hotel.

They will be accompanied by billboards bearing the faces of other ultra-wealthy individuals like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. One shows the three laughing with the slogan “tax me if you can.”

Another simply says, “Cut the [expletive.] Tax the rich.”

Corporate taxes have taken center stage after President Joe Biden proposed hiking them to pay for his sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure bill. Republicans, however, oppose any tax increases to pay for the measure, and Biden has signaled he’s willing to compromise his vision.

Progressive voices have also been calling attention to the tax system. Among the proposals Patriotic Millionaires supports is Elizabeth Warren’s suggested “ultra millionaire tax.”