Drummond Pike is the Founder and CEO of Tides.
This was posted on December 17, 2009 on City Brights.
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 [...]
By Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service on December 17, 2009
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 Tuesday, December 1, 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 [...]
Originally aired on 12 November. 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 [...]
An article by Alison Goldberg in the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy’s publication about why progressive tax reform is an important strategy for deepening philanthropy’s commitment to the common good.
Originally published in Summer 2009, now available online.
Originally published on 3 November. 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 [...]
Originally aired on 20 October. Linked from Bloomberg.
An interview with Wealth for the Common Good co-founder Chuck Collins on Bloomberg’s Inside Look.
Originally published on 30 Sept. 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 [...]
Originally published on 27 Sept. 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 [...]
Originally published 10 Sept. Linked from TheHill.com
By Alexander Bolton
Warren Buffett, the renowned investor and the world’s second richest man, told Senate Democrats that wealthy Americans need to pay higher taxes, giving Democrats something to mull as they address healthcare reform and soaring federal deficits.
Senate Democrats met with Buffett for more than an hour over lunch [...]