If democrats follow Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s lead, they can find their way to a bold new economy. Raising wages and taxing millionaires are not only both essential elements of a smart economy, but they are also wildly popular with the bipartisan majority of Americans.

Here's what Senator Van Hollen stated earlier this week when he outlined his vision for the economy:

“I’m shortly going to introduce a piece of legislation that imposes a surtax on people who make more than a million dollars and we’re going to use the proceeds to give working people a tax cut so that nobody in America who is simply making enough to pay their basic cost of living expenses is paying taxes in America. That is the idea, and that is an idea that directly says to working people, we’re going to support you and we’re going to make sure that we get this revenue by getting people who can afford to pay in more to our common good to do that.”

Let’s thank Senator Chris Van Hollen for his leadership.