Wealthy Parents, Inherited Advantage, and Declining Mobility
Advantages accelerate for wealthy children while disadvantages compound for everyone else.
Articles by Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins: Washington’s Promiscuous Protectors of Privilege: A Congressional Inequality Report Card
Mitt Romney and I both grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a wealthy suburb of Detroit. For much of our childhoods, we were represented in Congress by a tireless defender of the rich and powerful, William Broomfield.
Chuck Collins: The 99 Percent Spring
The American people, more and more of us are realizing, aren’t powerless in the face of extreme inequality.
Chuck Collins: No Tax Holiday for Corporate Job Destroyers
A powerful coalition of U.S.-based global companies is lobbying hard for a “tax holiday” on offshore profits. Congress should say “no!”
Chuck Collins: A Tax Plan to Rally Around: The Buffett Rule
If you care about the future of the republic, the health of our communities, and prospects for a new green economy, the fight over taxation and concentrated wealth is your fight.
Chuck Collins: Corporations Fracking US Tax Code
CEOs Get Massive Rewards for Dodging Corporate Taxes As the Super Congress eyes trillions in budget cuts that will undermine the quality of life for most Americans, here’s a stunning fact to contemplate: Twenty-five hugely profitable U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last year than they paid Uncle Sam in taxes. In other words, the [...]
Chuck Collins: America Doesn’t Need A Tax Dodging Industry
If the companies that offshore their profits and design tax scams paid their fair share, we might not have a budget crisis.
Chuck Collins: Ten Years After Bush Tax Cuts, Pawlenty Offers Reckless Plan
Though GOP congressional leaders talk austerity and imply that the only solution to budget deficits are spending cuts, a strong majority of people in the U.S. want to put raising taxes on the table.
Chuck Collins: A Decade of Magical Tax Cut Thinking
Republican leaders in Congress have a one-point program for whatever ails the nation: cut taxes for millionaires and large corporations.
Chuck Collins: We’re Not Broke, Just Twisted
Some politicians would rather cut services for children and the mentally ill before they dare to propose tax hikes on millionaires and tax-dodging corporations. But that doesn’t mean we’re broke. It just means we need to get our priorities straight.