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Chuck Collins is a researcher, campaigner, and storyteller based at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good and co-edits Inequality.org. He is the author of 10 books about the impact of inequality on our lives, including The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, Born on Third Base, and (with Bill Gates Sr.) Wealth and Our Commonwealth.
Chuck Collins is co-editor of voices@commonsnews.org.
The Pandora Papers, released in early October, are the product of massive data leaks carefully analyzed by more than 600 journalists from around the world. They unmask the secretive ways by which the world's super-wealthy hide trillions of dollars and dodge taxes - not just on some sandy Caribbean...
Around the world, as our nations attempt to get out from under this pandemic, a question looms: How can we pay for recovery? One increasingly popular idea globally: Tax the billionaires who've profited tremendously during the pandemic. And here in the U.S., nearly two-thirds of us now say we support a tax on extreme wealth, including the proposal introduced in Congress by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal. Critics, like billionaire investor Leon Cooperman, counter that if a wealth...
