Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes by William H. Gates
English | February 16th, 2016 | ISBN: 0807047198, 080704718X | 184 pages | EPUB | 0.45 MB
The 'Man Bites Dog' story of over 1,000 high net-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.