For media inquiries, please contact Kristi Ceccarossi at (617) 983-4094 or e-mail kristi@wealthforcommongood.org.
Chuck Collins, Co-Founder of Wealth for the Common Good
Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 pm near Burlington, VT
For details, contact Chuck at chuckcollins7@mac.com
There is a highly polarized conversation about the role of government and taxes in advancing a healthy and fair economy. Does the concentration of wealth and power undermine our democracy? What is the role of [...]
Philadelphia: Saturday, January 23, 2010 from 3:00-5:30 pm
Los Angeles: Thursday, February 11, 2010 from 7:00-9:00 pm
Wealth for the Common Good is partnering with Resource Generation, and Bread & Roses Community Fund in Philadelphia, to sponsor these workshops. They focus on the roles young people with wealth can play in progressive tax reform and are open [...]
We are partnering with Growth & Justice in St. Paul, Minnesota to host two events in the Twin Cities on the role of wealthy individuals in progressive tax reform.
For more information, contact Ann Manning at ann@wealthforcommongood.org
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 [...]
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