Reporting from Washington— While members of the so-called 99% take part in Occupy Wall Street protests, a new website lets some of the wealthy 1% declare their support for the movement. The site, called “We are the 1 percent. We stand with […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Contact: Lacy MacAuley, Institute for Policy Studies; (202) 445-4692 mobile; lacy@ips-dc.org Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies; (617) 308-4433; chuckcollins7@mac.com Wealthy People Show Support for Protests with new website: “We are the […]
From the Resource Generation Blog: This letter to the editor was submitted to the NY Times at the end of last week. Sign on to a longer version of this letter at lettertothefuture.us. The Letter to the Future site will be updated soon […]
Though you could argue that any time’s a good time to be rich, perhaps many of the millionaires who support Wealth for the Common Good have grown weary of eating humble pie with those silver spoons. First President Obama did […]
Warren Buffett is calling. We need more wealthy folks like him to speak up for taxing the wealthy. Billionaire super-investor Warren Buffett has done it again. The Oracle of Omaha has made a bold and revealing statement about “taxing the […]
During an interview at the end of July, Matt Damon made a strong statement on tax fairness: “The wealthy are paying less than they paid at any time else, certainly in my lifetime, and probably in the last century… It’s […]
OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and middle class […]
On June 6, 2011 the Patriotic Millionaires held a press conference to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Bush tax cuts and encourage Congress to put millionaire tax rates on the table in the budget debates. Download (mp3) “I pay […]