Steve Cohen, U.S. Congressman representing Tennessee’s 9th district since 2007, recently used his social media platform to advocate for changes in the taxation of extreme wealth and to comment on current events.
On November 5, 2025, Cohen posted about tax disparities over time: “The richest people in human history are paying less taxes than wealthy Americans did 60 years ago. And they’re not building libraries or parks—they’re building doomsday bunkers & sending celebrities into ‘space’. It’s time to tax extreme wealth fairly. My Billionaire Income Tax https://t.co/0u972gMhWo”
Shortly after, he elaborated on legislative efforts: “I introduced the Billionaire Income Tax Act in the House, and Senator @RonWyden introduced it in the Senate. If your Representative and Senators haven’t co-sponsored, you should ask them why.” Both posts reference Cohen’s push for what he describes as fairer taxation of billionaires through proposed legislation.
On November 7, 2025, Cohen commented on an unspecified incident involving another individual’s reaction to trauma: “He freezes at another’s trauma. What a cold cold soulless zombie https://t.co/sWIaycSX1J”
Cohen has served as a member of Congress since replacing Harold Ford Jr. in 2007 and previously spent two decades in the Tennessee Senate from 1983 to 2003. Born in Memphis in 1949 and currently residing there at age 73, Cohen is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University (BA) and the University of Memphis (JD).
