Hello friends, We’re happy to share some victories this week from the frontlines of progressive tax reform. Anti-estate tax groups drop bid for total repeal A major lobby of 46 business groups that have been fighting the estate tax decided […]
Warren Buffett returned to Capitol Hill recently to meet with Democratic Congressional leaders and urge them to raise taxes on the wealthy. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) was impressed. “It was interesting to see someone who is such an aggressive capitalist, […]
Two members of our team, Alan Preston and Alison Goldberg, were in San Francisco last week to participate in this year’s Tides Momentum Leadership Conference. Alan was invited to give a brief overview of Wealth for the Common Good’s mission […]
Our colleagues at Citizens for Tax Justice have just released another stellar report, this time comparing the net effects of the Bush tax cuts with the cost to enact the House Democrats’ health care proposal. How much did the Bush […]
This week the Connecticut legislature passed a controversial budget that included an income tax increase on couples making more than $1 million and single filers earning $500,000 a year. (Read more about it here.) Naturally, the initiative had its share […]
Join Chuck Collins at the Wishcamper Center at the University Center at the University of Southern Maine for a stimulating evening exploring how our country moved away from the ideal of everyone paying their fair share to tax breaks for […]
Two members of Wealth for the Common Good spoke out today about the role our nation’s infrastructure plays in creating individual wealth. During a press conference, Arul Menezes, a principal architect at Microsoft, and Bill Collins, former mayor of Norwalk, […]
To mark the public launch of our campaign, Wealth for the Common Good members will address the media on Wednesday in a teleconference. Arul Menezes, principal architect at Microsoft, and Bill Collins, former mayor of Norwalk, Conn., will speak on […]