Published 10 September 2009. 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 [...]
Published on 13 August 2009. Linked from The Wealth Report in the Wall Street Journal.
By Robert Frank
Diogenes, the famed beggar-philosopher of ancient Greece, supposedly roamed the streets of Athens, lamp in hand, trying to find an honest man.
Chuck Collins, the politically liberal heir to the Oscar Mayer fortune, is engaged in a more curent Diogenian [...]
Published 11 August 2009. Linked from the Christian Science Monitor.
By David R. Francis, Staff Writer
Raise my taxes, says millionaire Chuck Collins.
The scion of the Oscar Mayer family supports a House panel’s healthcare plan that would boost taxes for families earning more than $350,000 a year. He also advocates ending the Bush tax cuts for the [...]
Published 5 August 2009. Linked from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Also published in The Progressive, The Vindicator, Press of Atlantic City, Colorado Daily, National Post (Canada) and Financial Post (Canada).
By Arul Menezes
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about raising taxes on the wealthy. As a higher-income person who would pay such [...]
Aired on 10 August 2009. Linked from Stand UP! with Pete Dominick.
John Burbank, Executive Director of the Economic Opportunity Institute in Seattle and member of Wealth for the Common Good talks about the campaign with Pete Dominick on the POTUS satellite radio channel.
Aired 29 July 2009. Linked from FOXBusiness.com.
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Wealth for the Common Good member Eric Schoenberg, professor at Columbia Business School, talks with Neil Cavuto about our campaign.
Published 30 July 2009. Linked from The Nation.
By Katrina vanden Heuvel.
At a moment when conservative Democrats are holding real healthcare reform hostage under the guise of “fiscal discipline”–fighting against a robust public option, promoting a regressive taxation of health benefits, and opposing a surtax on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans–a network of business leaders and [...]
Published on 5 August 2009. Linked from yesmagazine.org.
By Chuck Collins
When members of Congress proposed paying for expanded health care with a tax surcharge on America’s wealthiest citizens, the attack was swift but predictable. Taxing the top was
labeled “class war,” n attack on the successful, and bad for business and the economy.
So it was refreshing when [...]
Aired 28 July 2009, 8 pm ET. Linked from GRITtv.
Wealth for the Common Good member Eric Schoenberg, a private investor and professor at Columbia’s business school, talks alongside Rep. Maxine Waters about the proposal to pay for health reform with a surtax on the wealthy.
Broadcast 29 July 2009. Linked from Marketplace at American Public Radio.
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Bill Radke: Have you ever looked at the taxes that get withheld from your paycheck and thought: “I wish Uncle Sam would take more money?” Me neither. But a group of nearly 200 ultra-wealthy Americans has banded together to say [...]