Remembering Bill Gates Sr.
He believed the estate tax was an “economic opportunity recycling program.”
He believed the estate tax was an “economic opportunity recycling program.”
The 500 or so U.S. billionaires should make an extra contribution to the public health and economic needs of a country in crisis.
With fortunes inflated by corporate welfare, wealthy real estate owners can afford to cancel housing-related expenses and debts for millions of struggling American families.
America’s 12 wealthiest now control $1 trillion of wealth. The only practical way to address this extreme wealth concentration: a tax on accumulated grand fortune.
Local policymakers are facing pressure to make painful spending cuts. Instead, they should raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
A new House proposal would ensure that all Americans in hard-hit areas could have a job. A tax on Wall Street windfalls would pay for it.
Through personal testimonies of systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism, the event brought the campaign’s bold fusion agenda to new audiences.
The New York leader has prioritized the wealth and influence of billionaires — many of whom are his donors — over the physical well-being of his most vulnerable constituents.