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 [...]
Originally published 28 July. Linked from Marketplace’s Scratch Pad blog.
By Scott Jagow
A group called Wealth for the Common Good has launched a campaign to repeal the Bush tax cuts immediately, instead of waiting for them to expire in 2011. But this isn’t a grassroots organization of low-paid activists. These people are rich, and they want [...]
Originally aired 18 July. Linked from CNN.com, Your Money.
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Originally aired 18 July. Linked from CNN.com, Your Money.
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VELSHI: Those in the top tax brackets have a right to be spooked. Perhaps not as much as the “New York Post” would have you guess. But the income surtax to pay for House Democrats health care bill would [...]
Originally aired 17 July. Linked from CNN.com, Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Transcript:
KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Health care
proposals the House is debating include plans to tax the rich. But
according to a new study by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, that tax
surcharge on wealthy Americans would bring the top U.S. tax rates to
levels not seen since the 1970’s. Bill Tucker [...]