This past week, President Obama tried to sell his new “millionaires’ tax” to the Rust Belt. “What’s great about this country is our belief that anyone can make it,” he said in Cincinnati on Thursday, praising “the idea that any one of us can open a business or have an idea that could make us millionaires.” But who are the millionaires Obama is talking about? And will a tax on them help the economy? Let’s examine a few presumptions about the man with the monocle on the Monopoly board. Read full article > >

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Five myths about millionaires

Slams proposal to hike rates on millionaires.

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Ryan: Obama Tax Is ‘Class Warfare’

The millionaire owner of the Segway company, Jimi Heselden, leaves an estate of more than £340m to his family.

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The partner of a millionaire estate agent is found guilty of using a fake will after he died when she learned his divorce from his wife was never finalised

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Millionaire’s partner faked will

An Oxfordshire multi-millionaire sacked two of his staff in a fit of rage over a chicken dinner, a tribunal hears.

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The Mumbai home of “Slumdog Millionaire” star Rubina Ali has been burned down in a massive fire.

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The home of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali burned down in a fire that spread through a crowded slum in the Indian city of Mumbai. The blaze occurred in the Garib Nagar slum late Friday, and most of the awards Ali won, as well as the…

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Slumdog Millionaire child actress Rubina Ali says precious Oscar souvenirs were lost when a fire ravaged her home in Mumbai.

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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) was announced today as the Republican who will be responding to President Obama’s State of the Union address next week. Ryan has gained a (largely unearned) reputation as a fiscal hawk due to his radical Roadmap for America’s Future, under which the U.S. read more

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GOP’s State of the Union Responder Would Set Higher Taxes on Middle-Class Than Millionaires