William H Gates Sr. is the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation in Seattle. He serves as trustee for a number of
Northwest and national organizations, including the national board
of United Way.
Chuck Collins is the cofounder and program director of the
Boston-based United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth
(www.responsiblewealth.org). He is coauthor of several books about
economic inequality, including Economic Aparthied in America- A
Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity.
Paul Volcker is former chairman of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.
“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
"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
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