Published in the Providence Journal on 5 March 2010. Linked from projo.com. Distributed by MinuteMan media.
By Naomi Sobel
President Obama has made it clear that he wants to erase the Bush-era tax cuts for the highest earners in the country, even as he preserves the tax cuts for middle- and working-class Americans.
There are plenty of Republicans [...]
Published on 17 December 2009 on City Brights.
By Drummond Pike, Founder and CEO of Tides.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the effort to extend the current Estate Tax regime through next year has failed. As part of the Bush tax cuts, the exemption, above which taxes are due, has been slowly rising. The Conservative plan, put [...]
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service on 17 December 2009.
By Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins
Imagine a story about tax policy created by horror writer Stephen King. A fictional Congress, divided between anti-tax ideology and fiscal responsibility, amends the inheritance tax on the very wealthy so that it disappears entirely one year and then returns at [...]
Published in Oneida Daily Dispatch on 1 December 2009
By Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt expressed alarm about the dangerous concentration of wealth and power in the U.S., and called on the incoming 60th Congress to establish a federal estate tax on large fortunes. Its primary objective, Roosevelt said, “should [...]
Aired on 12 November 2009. Linked from The World.
Germany’s new conservative ruling coalition is proposing steep tax cuts to help end the economic crisis. That’s sending Germany’s deficit soaring, so a group of very rich citizens says it wants to help bridge the growing fiscal gap. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports.
Wealth for the Common Good [...]
Published in Summer 2009 in the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy publication. Linked from NCRP online.
Published on 3 November 2009. Linked from In These Times online.
By Pete Redington
BOSTON—After hearing Ralph Nader discuss his new book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, at an event here Friday night, a man expressed the concern many Nader supporters felt upon reading the book’s title.
Only the rich? A book about billionaires giving their time [...]
Aired on 20 October. Linked from Bloomberg.
An interview with Wealth for the Common Good co-founder Chuck Collins on Bloomberg’s Inside Look.
Published on 30 September 2009. Linked from The Huffington Post.
By Chuck Collins
Sometimes you can’t declare victory until the other side concedes defeat. That’s what happened Monday in the decade-long struggle over the future of the federal estate tax, our nation’s only levy on inherited wealth.
The coalition of corporate lobbyists and wealthy families, including the U.S [...]
Published on 27 September 2009. Linked from Enough blog.
By Tyrone Boucher
I recently got a chance to co-facilitate a workshop designed by Wealth for the Common Good (they’re organizing rich people to fight for fairer tax policy) about wealth, taxes, and inequality. It was an awesome workshop and gave me the chance to a) get very [...]