Eric Schoenberg on CNC Business News Network
Eric Schoenberg, one of the “Patriotic Millionaires,” in an interview on 8/16/11 for CNC Business News Network. Watch the interview here.
Chuck Collins in Huff Post: Warren Buffett’s Call: Tax Wealth for the Common Good
Originally posted on The Huffington Post, August 16, 2011 Warren Buffett is calling. We need more wealthy folks like him to speak up for taxing the wealthy. Billionaire super-investor Warren Buffett has done it again. The Oracle of Omaha has made a bold and revealing statement about “taxing the wealthy.” In his op-ed in Monday’s The New [...]
Warren Buffett in The New York Times: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
Published in The New York Times August 14, 2011 OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and [...]
Ann Manning: From the left – an Eisenhower extremist?
Originally posted on MinnPost.com August 9, 2011 We live in a very complex world, far different from the one most of us were born into, and it’s difficult for all of us to understand what government and economic policies are really needed in a 21st century world. Yet the recent debates in Washington — and [...]
Paul Egerman in The Hill: Proud to invest in America
Originally posted on The Hill, August 5, 2011 I love America, and have proudly invested in America. I have invested by building successful businesses employing thousands of American workers. And I have invested in our country by paying taxes. But our nation loses $100 billion a year to tax dodging by some of our largest corporations [...]
Henry Bloch: Balance the budget and balance the tax burden
July 30, 2011 Originally printed in the Kansas City Star Something has gone terribly wrong in Washington, D.C. Over the last two decades, both Republicans and Democrats have put our country in a financial dilemma largely caused by one simple fact: The government borrows nearly 45 cents for every dollar it spends. Now the ongoing [...]
Ann Manning: What is the economy, anyway?
by Ann Manning Posted June 29, 2011 on insightnews.com The current GOP leadership and their colleagues in the Minnesota House and Senate are the unfortunate victims of the Taxpayer’s League and Governor Tim Pawlenty’s foolish “no new taxes, ever” pledge. I suspect many Republican legislators know that the best thing for Minnesota right now is [...]
Fox Business: Eric Schoenberg on America’s Nightly Scoreboard
FOX Business, Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman – June 16, 2011 Watch the video of CampusWorks Chairman and Wealth for Common Good member Eric Schoenberg on why we should increase top tax rates.
The Hill: Business groups come out against corporate tax holiday
by Bernie Becker Originally posted on The Hill, June 14, 2011 A business group that has taken some positions popular among liberals has come out against a corporate tax holiday for offshore profits, saying U.S. multinationals already have too much incentive to ship jobs abroad. Business for Shared Prosperity and a coalition of other groups, [...]
Dr. William Barclay: The Bush tax cuts: A decade of economic disaster
By DR. WILLIAM BARCLAY Originally posted on Taunton Daily Gazette, June 13, 2011 This month marks the tenth anniversary of the first of the two tax cuts sought by the President George Bush. The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act was enacted in 2001 to be followed, in 2003, by the Jobs and Growth [...]