US News & World Report is hosting a Debate Club on the Buffett Rule, and Chuck Collins is one of the debaters. You can vote for him — and the other pro-Buffet Rule authors. First though, if you haven’t call […]
Warren Buffett has famously decried the unfairness of a tax system that lets him pay a lower rate than his secretary. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island crafted the Buffett Rule for tax fairness into proposed legislation called “The Paying […]
Wealth for Common Good founder has a new book out, “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.” The focus of the worldwide Occupy protests is creating a world that works […]
Tax policies are now on the front burner: The Buffett Rule will soon come up for a vote in Congress. Americans are learning the truth about unequal treatment of wealth and work in our tax code—how capital gains and investment […]
The staff of Wealth for the Common Good have been discussing and reflecting on the opportunities of this critical moment for our network – a network made up of many members of “the 1%.” We all sense a significant and […]
On March 8th, the Senate adopted the “Levin Amendment.” Global Financial Integrity reports: The amendment, sponsored by Senators Carl Levin (D-MI), Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), grants the U.S. Treasury Department “a discretionary tool to stop off-shore tax […]
Story of the campaign… Over the past year, Resource Generation and Wealth for CommonGood have been developing a campaign to amplify the voices of young wealthy people for tax justice. During the same weekend in September when our organizing team came together to […]
A press release from our partner Citizens for Tax Justice on their important recent report on corporate tax dodging: A comprehensive new study that profiles 265 consistently profitable Fortune 500 companies finds that 68 of them paid no state corporate […]