by Chuck Collins & Sam Pizzigati
Originally published on HuffingtonPost.com, June 2, 2010
How can a civilized nation afford to hand the heirs of the super-rich billions of dollars tax-free and not afford to keep teachers in classrooms? […]
President Obama is ‘spreading the wealth,’ that is, taxing the rich and redistributing the wealth. Good policy or heavy-handed intrusion? “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” presidential candidate Barack Obama famously told an Ohio man, soon […]
Wealth for the Common Good cofounders Chuck Collins and Alison Goldberg will speak on a March 25th teleconference organized by Bolder Giving. Learn how those of us in the philanthropy world can leverage billions of dollars towards causes we care […]
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 […]
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, […]
Aired on 20 October. Linked from Bloomberg. An interview with Wealth for the Common Good co-founder Chuck Collins on Bloomberg’s Inside Look.
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 […]
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 […]