Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer

By Morris Pearl

Platform: Patriotic Millionaires has a 40,000 person email list and over 180,000 Facebook followers.

Media Coverage: Patriotic Millionaires is a media machine and is routinely covered across major media with over 1000 news stories featuring the group and 150 op-eds in local and national outlets in the last two years. Morris Pearl, the Chair of Patriotic Millionaires and author of Tax the Rich!, routinely appears on NPR, CNBC, ABC News, and Fox Business, among others.

Launch plans: Scheduled to be published on tax day — April 15, 2021. Patriotic Millionaires will hold launch parties in a range of cities across the country, including elected officials, media figures, and wealthy progressives such as Patriotic Millionaires’ Abby Disney (Walt’s niece), Chuck Collins (Oscar Mayer Wiener fortune), Leah Hunt Hendrix (Hunt oil), Keith Mestrich (president of Amalgamated Bank), Steve Prince (National Business Products founder), Geoff Coventry (founder, Tradewind Energy), etc.

Format: Like the highly successful New Press books Field Guide to the US Economy and Field Guide to the Global Economy the book will be a paperback original and will be full of graphics, charts, cartoons, and other visual elements.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The New Press
• Release date: Apr 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9781620976647

Morris Pearl

Morris Pearl, a former managing director of BlackRock, is chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation, and ensuring that millionaires, billionaires, and corporations pay their fair share of taxes. He is the co-author, with Erica Payne, of Tax the Rich! and co-author, with John Driscoll, of Pay the People! (both from The New Press) and lives in New York City.

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