Biden and congressional Democrats need to fund their $3.5 trillion plan to expand the nation's safety net

All told, the legislation would bring in an additional $1 trillion in revenue from high-income Americans, according to the committee.

“I’m not out to punish anyone. I’m a capitalist. If you can make a million or a billion dollars, that’s great,” Biden said in an economic speech Thursday. “All I’m asking is you pay your fair share. Pay your fair share just like middle-class folks do. But that isn’t happening now.”

Here are three things to know about the very rich:

1. It took $540,000 in…