Erica Payne on the origins of Patriotic Millionaires: "In 2010, President Obama decided he was gonna cave to Republican demands to extend the Bush tax cuts & that pissed me off. It pissed off 56 million other millionaires who signed a letter that said, 'for the good of the country, raise my taxes.'"

Erica Payne: "If you're running a business, and you're not paying somebody something they can afford to live on, you don't have a business. You have a human exploitation scheme. And we need to all get that straight."

Payne highlights a chart showing how labor productivity has become decoupled from wages

Patriotic Millionaires founder Erica Payne: "Here's what happened. Doesn't matter who's in charge. Tax rates for the rich always go down."

Elizabeth Wilkins: "The good version is that we get together to think about what we need in terms of power the ideas & the people to create a new common sense - one that brings us back for the modern era to that marriage of democracy & capitalism, where democracy shapes markets for the public good."