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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780807047187
- EAN
- 9780807047187
- Book Title
- Wealth and Our Commonwealth : Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Public Policy / Social Policy, Taxation, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Taxation / General
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
080704718X
ISBN-13
9780807047187
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038767681
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wealth and Our Commonwealth : Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Social Policy, Taxation, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Taxation / General
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-011326
Reviews
When the wealthy themselves plead for the right to pay higher taxes, the situation becomes more challenging . . . The skeptics will say . . . 'Let the rich get rich! It's good for us!' No society will remain healthy in the long run if it fails to pay attention to the distribution of income and wealth. It is thus Gates and Collins, rather than the mean-spirited advocates of Bushonomics, who are the true American patriots. --Michael Prowse, Financial Times "After reading this persuasive volume, you'll think the whole case for repealing the 'death tax' is unhinged . . ." --Rich Barlow, Boston Globe "In their clearheaded primer on estate taxes, Gates and Collins . . . are doing urgent work. By pushing to repeal the estate tax, the Bush administration is doing all it can to shift the total tax burden away from the very wealthy and toward middle- and lower-income taxpayers. This is not only unjust, it's nuts. Inheritance taxes would only fall on the largest estates . . . It is a concept no less worthy for being old-fashioned." --E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post "Bill Gates and Chuck Collins provide a clear rationale for retaining the estate tax in this helpful and unselfish analysis." --Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "Inheritance taxes are not about raising tax revenue. They are about 'What Kind of Nation Do We Want to Be?' . . . This book gets our thoughts back on the right issues."--Lester Thurow, author of The Future of Capitalism From the Trade Paperback edition., When the wealthy themselves plead for the right to pay higher taxes, the situation becomes more challenging . . . The skeptics will say . . . 'Let the rich get rich! It's good for us!' No society will remain healthy in the long run if it fails to pay attention to the distribution of income and wealth. It is thus Gates and Collins, rather than the mean-spirited advocates of Bushonomics, who are the true American patriots. --Michael Prowse,Financial Times "After reading this persuasive volume, you'll think the whole case for repealing the 'death tax' is unhinged . . ." --Rich Barlow,Boston Globe "In their clearheaded primer on estate taxes, Gates and Collins . . . are doing urgent work. By pushing to repeal the estate tax, the Bush administration is doing all it can to shift the total tax burden away from the very wealthy and toward middle- and lower-income taxpayers. This is not only unjust, it's nuts. Inheritance taxes would only fall on the largest estates . . . It is a concept no less worthy for being old-fashioned." --E. J. Dionne Jr.,Washington Post "Bill Gates and Chuck Collins provide a clear rationale for retaining the estate tax in this helpful and unselfish analysis." --Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "Inheritance taxes are not about raising tax revenue. They are about 'What Kind of Nation Do We Want to Be?' . . . This book gets our thoughts back on the right issues."--Lester Thurow, author of The Future of Capitalism
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
336.2/76/0973
Table Of Content
Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter One: What Kind of Nation Do We Want to Be? Revenue Loss and the Tax Burden Shift The Impact on State Treasuries The Estate Tax and Inequality The Dangers of Inequality Today Concentrated Wealth and Democracy Concentrated Wealth and Equality of Opportunity Growing Inequality Is Bad Economic Policy Inequality and Our Civic and Public Health Does the Estate Tax Have an Impact? Chapter Two: The Origins of America's Estate Tax American Values: The Roots of the Estate Tax The Gilded Age and Movement for an Estate Tax Early Estate Taxation Supporters of the Estate Tax The Establishment of the Estate Tax Chapter Three: Opposition to the Estate Tax The Effort to Repeal the Estate Tax Inside the D.C. Beltway "Death Tax": What's in a Name? Orange County, California Seattle, Washington Hiding the Real Face of Estate Taxpayers The Estate Tax Down on the Farm The Estate Tax and Family-Owned Enterprises The Case for Repeal: Unsound and Misleading Arguments Is the Estate Tax Unfair Because Death Should Not Be a Taxable Event? Is the Estate Tax Unfair Because It Punishes Successful People Why Penalize People Who Leave Their Hard-Earned Savings and Wealth to Their Children? Is the Estate Tax a Form of Double Taxation? Does the Estate Tax Penalize the Little Guys? Does the Estate Tax Raise Enough Revenue to Cover the Cost of Collecting It? Is the Top Rate of the Estate Tax Too High? How Much Does the Estate Tax Really Raise? Chapter Four: The Showdown Budget Framework Fiscal Responsibility and the Rising Costs of Estate Tax Repeal Organizing to Oppose Complete Repeal The Estate Tax: A Summary of Changes Chapter Five: What We Owe Our Society A Religious Perspective on Wealth and Society What Is It Worth to Be an American? The Estate Tax and Charitable Giving A New Spirit of Giving? What about the Children? The Dangers of the Silver Spoon Epilogue: The Estate Tax and the Common Good Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments
Synopsis
More than a thousand individuals of high net worth rose up to protest the repeal of the estate tax-Newsweek tagged them the "billionaire backlash." The primary visionaries of that group, Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, argue here that individual wealth is a product not only of hard work and smart choices but of the society that provides the fertile soil for succes. Weaving personal narratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates and Collins make a sound and compelling case for estate tax reform, not repeal., The'Man Bites Dog' story of over 1,000 highnet- worth individuals who rose up to protest the repeal of the estate tax made headlines everywhere last year. Central to the organization of what Newsweek tagged the 'billionaire backlash' were two visionaries: Bill Gates, Sr., cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest foundation on earth, and Chuck Collins, cofounder of United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth, and the great-grandson of meat packer Oscar Mayer who gave away his substantial inheritance at the age of twenty-six. Gates and Collins argue that individual wealth is a product not only of hard work and smart choices but of the society that provides the fertile soil for success. They don't subscribe to the'Great Man' theory of wealth creation but contend that society's investments, such as economic development, education, health care, and property rights protection, all contribute to any individual's good fortune. With the repeal proposed by the Bush administration, we might be facing the future that Teddy Roosevelt feared-where huge fortunes amassed and untaxed would evolve into a dangerous and permanent aristocracy. Repeal would drop federal revenues $294 billion in the first 10 years; 27 some $750 billion would be lost in the second decade, not to mention that the U.S. Treasury estimates that charitable contributions would drop by $6 billion a year. But what about all those modest families that would lose the farm? Gates and Collins expose the fallacy of this argument, pointing out that this is largely a myth and that the very same lobbies and politicians who are crying'cows' have opposed other legislation that would actually have helped small farmers. Weaving in personal narratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates and Collins make a sound and compelling case for tax reform, not repeal.
LC Classification Number
HJ5805.G38 2003
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