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 [...]
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 [...]