December 19, 2011
WFCG 2011 Year in Review
We are making progress in the tax debate in this country. In a year that has seen the introduction of “The Buffett Rule” and widespread public support for millionaire taxes, it is your voices and testimony that have helped open up the conversation. From all of us at Wealth for Common Good, thanks for all [...]
December 17, 2011
Campaign update: We are the 1 percent. We stand with the 99 percent
Story of the campaign: Over the past year, Resource Generation and Wealth for the Common Good have been developing a campaign to amplify the voices of young wealthy people for tax justice. During the same weekend in September when our organizing team came together to shape strategies, the Occupy Wall Street protest was gathering steam. The team [...]
November 16, 2011
Taxing the Wealthy – TED Talk by Chuck Collins
Wealth for the Common Good founder Chuck Collins recently did a TED Talk on ‘Taxing the Wealthy’ which has just been published.
Patriotic Millionaires testified before Congress
A group of about two dozen Patriotic Millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday to ask lawmakers for their taxes to be raised. They lobbied for the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire and any deal the so-called super committee settles on includes the raising of taxes on millionaires like themselves. They visited members [...]
August 16, 2011
Matt Damon’s statement on taxes
During an interview at the end of July, Matt Damon made a strong statement on tax fairness: “The wealthy are paying less than they paid at any time else, certainly in my lifetime, and probably in the last century… It’s criminal that so little is asked of people who are getting so much. I don’t [...]
June 7, 2011
Patriotic Millionaire Videos
The Patriotic Millionaires include almost 200 people with incomes over $1 million and are advocating to increase their own tax rates. Read the sign-on letter here. A video message to Speaker John Boehner and members of Congress: Watch press clips: Patriotic Millionaires on why they would pay higher tax rates:
June 6 Patriotic Millionaires Press Conference
On June 6, 2011 the Patriotic Millionaires held a press conference to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Bush tax cuts and encourage Congress to put millionaire tax rates on the table in the budget debates. Download (mp3) “I pay a lesser percentage of my income now than I have paid at any time in [...]
May 31, 2011
June 7 – Let’s Put Revenue on the Table
June 7 marks the 10th anniversary of the 2001 Bush tax cuts. Over this last decade, these tax cuts have cost the nation $2.5 trillion in lost revenue. Almost 40 percent of the tax cuts went to the richest 1 percent of households – people whose annual family incomes exceed $380,000. Republican leaders in Congress [...]
March 16, 2011
Fairness in Taxation Act – Millionaire Sign-on Letter
March 16- Rep. Jan Schakowsky introduced the Fairness in Taxation Act, to create new top income tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires. Today, those with incomes over $1 million – or $20 million – pay the same top tax rate as people with incomes over $373,000. The Fairness in Taxation Act would create a new [...]
February 24, 2011
New initiative for young people with wealth
We are excited to launch a new initiative in partnership with Resource Generation, to mobilize young people with wealth to speak out for fair and equitable taxes. The Progressive Tax Campaign Organizing Team is a one-year intensive action project for young people, 18-35, with wealth who are ready to launch a campaign for progressive tax [...]