In January 2014 , the '' Wall Street Journal '' published a letter from Perkins that compared the " progressive war on the American one percent " of wealthiest Americans and the Occupy movement 's " demonization of the rich " to the Kristallnacht and anti-semitism in Nazi Germany : Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought , San Francisco , I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on the " one percent " , namely its Jews , to the progressive war on the American one percent , namely the " rich . " The letter was widely criticized and condemned in '' The Atlantic '' , '' The Independent '' , among bloggers , Twitter users , and " his own colleagues in Silicon Valley " . Perkins subsequently apologized for making the comparisons with Nazi Germany , but otherwise stood by his letter , saying , " In the Nazi era it was racial demonization , now it 's class demonization . " A month after publication of the letter in the '' Wall Street Journal '' , Perkins stated in a Commonwealth Club interview ( which can be seen on YouTube ) when asked at the ending for his 60-minute " Plan to Save the World " he said that he believed elections should be set up such that the number of votes a person can cast would be proportional to the amount of taxes that the person pays . Both Perkins , the moderator and the audience were laughing . In an interview afterwards , Perkins said " I intended to be outrageous , and it was . " Perkins had houses in Belvedere , Marin County , California , and spent about two months a year at Plumpton Place , his Elizabethan mansion in East Sussex , England , which once belonged to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page . In 2010 , he purchased the penthouse atop the Millennium Tower on Mission Street in San Francisco 's financial district
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Thomas Perkins (businessman)