Wealth and our commonwealth
Subtitle: why America should tax accumulated fortunes
By: William H. Gates, Sr., and Chuck Collins.
Contributors: Collins, Chuck.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Inheritance and transfer tax -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165).
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: what kind of nation do we want to be?; title: Revenue loss and tax burden shift; title: Impact on state treasuries; title: The estate tax and inequality; title: Concentrated wealth and democracy; title: Concentrated wealth and equality of opportunity; title: Growing inequality is bad economic policy; title: Inequality and our civic and public health; title: Does the estate tax have an impact?; title: Chapter 2: the origins of America's estate tax; title: The lost debate; title: American values : the roots of the estate tax; title: The gilded age and movement for an estate tax; title: Early inheritance and estate taxation; title: Supporters of the estate tax; title: The establishment of the estate tax; title: Chapter 3: opposition to the estate tax; title: The effort to repeal the estate tax; title: Inside the D.C. beltway; title: "Death tax" : what's in a name?; title: Orange county, California; title: Seattle, Washington; title: The hidden face of real estate taxpayers; title: The estate tax down on the farm; title: The estate tax and family owned enterprises; title: The case for repeal : unsound and misleading arguments; title: Chapter 4: the showdown; title: The budget showdown; title: Fiscal responsibility and the rising costs of estate tax repeal; title: Organizing to oppose complete repeal; title: The estate tax : a summary of changes; title: Chapter 5: what we owe our society; title: What is it worth to be an American?; title: A religious perspective on wealth and society; title: The estate tax and charitable giving; title: Our civic wealth; title: The estate tax and charity; title: A new spirit of giving?; title: What about the children? : the dangers of the silver spoon.