Super-Rich Targeted By New York Marchers

Some of New York's richest residents are being targeted by protesters staging "a Millionaires' March" in the Big Apple later today.

The protesters are angry at what they see as the government's preferential treatment of the wealthy at the expense of the middle classes

The latest "Wall Street protest" will involve a march to the Upper East Side homes of some of New York's top businessmen, reports suggest.

Those include JP Morgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon, Koch industries co-owner David Koch and NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch.

NewsCorp is the majority shareholder of BskyB, the owner of Sky News.

The marchers are upset that the state's "Millionaire's Tax" is to come to an end at the end of the year.

"While everyone else is struggling and being asked to make sacrifices to get through the economic downturn, these folks are actually being given more money to line their pockets," said Doug Forand, a spokesman for the group leading the march.

"They live in luxury - these folks don't need a tax break."

The group is calling for changes to the country's social and economic policies which, it claims, favour the wealthy.

One of the world's richest men, Warren Buffet - who has an estimated fortune of £30bn - said in the summer that America's super-rich should pay more tax.

"While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks," he wrote in the New York Times.

The march starts at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street and will finish on Park Avenue and 93rd Street.