Notes

Introduction: Public Policy and the Success Narrative

1. “Final Score” with David Asman, Fox Business, interview with Brian Miller recorded on July 8, 2011.

2. Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative (Kentucky: Victor, 1960), 61.

3. Harriet McLeod, “Texas Governor Rick Perry Launches Presidential Bid,” Reuters, August 13, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/14/us-usa-politics-perry-idUSTRE77C1EI20110814 (accessed October 28, 2011).

4. “Mitt Romney Remarks: August 11, 2011,” C-SPAN Video Library, http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Romneya (accessed October 28, 2011).

5. Avi Feller and Chad Stone, “Top 1 Percent of Americans Reaped Two-Thirds of Income Gains in Last Economic Expansion; Income Concentration in 2007 Was at Highest Level Since 1928, New Analysis Shows,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 9, 2009, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2908 (accessed October 28, 2011).

6. Bryan Thomas, “Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems for Approximately $884 Million,” Wind River, June 4, 2009, http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=6921 (accessed October 28, 2011).

7. “Estate Tax Speaker: Jerry Fiddler,” United for a Fair Economy, http://faireconomy.org/estate_tax_teleconference_nov_2010/jerry_fiddler (accessed October 28, 2011).

8. “Estate Tax Speaker: Jean Gordon,” United for a Fair Economy, http://faireconomy.org/estate_tax_teleconference_nov_2010/jean_gordon (accessed October 28, 2011).

9. Robert Reich, “The Truth about the American Economy,” Reader Supported News, May 31, 2011, http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/6108-the-truth-about-the-american-economy (accessed October 28, 2011).

10. Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), 164–65.

Chapter 1: The Self-Made Myth

1. Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 211.

2. Rmuse, “American Pariah: Why the Founding Fathers Would Reject the GOP,” Politicus USA, November 21, 2010, http://www.politicususa.com/en/american-pariah-why-the-founding-fathers-would-reject-the-gop (accessed October 28, 2011).

3. “Selected Short Stories of Mark Twain,” Le Moyne, http://lemoyne.edu/FacultyStaff/CelebratingMarkTwain/TwainReadings/tabid/2006/Default.aspx (accessed October 28, 2011).

4. “Gimme a Break! Mark Twain Lampoons the Horatio Alger Myth,” History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4935 (accessed October 28, 2011).

5. “The Story of the Good Little Boy Who Did Not Prosper,” The Galaxy, http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187005f.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

6. See note 3 above.

7. Irvin Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1954), 16.

8. Phineas T. Barnum, Art of Money Getting (Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1999), 5.

9. “Teaching with Documents: The Homestead Act of 1862,” National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act (accessed October 28, 2011).

10. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown, 2008), 61–62.

11. Wyllie, Self-Made Man, 24.

12. Ibid.

13. Yuval Elmelech, Transmitting Inequality: Wealth and the American Family (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), 71.

14. Wyllie, Self-Made Man, 109–10.

15. Ibid., 172.

16. Sarah Stanwick and Peter Stanwick, “Sunbeam Corporation: ‘Chainsaw Al’ and the Quest for a Turnaround,” Auburn University, http://www.auburn.edu/~stanwsd/sunbeam.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

17. Sam Pizzigati, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives (New York: Apex Press, 2004), 54.

18. Scott Klinger, “The Bigger They Come, The Harder They Fall: High CEO Pay and the Effect on Long-Term Stock Prices,” United for a Fair Economy, April 6, 2001, http://www.faireconomy.org/files/pdf/Bigger_They_Come.pdf (accessed October 28, 2011).

19. Jennifer Reingold, “Executive Pay,” Bloomberg Businessweek, April 17, 2000, http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/jan1990/b3677014.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

20. Frank Cocozzelli, “Paul Ryan Borrows a Page from Ayn Rand’s ‘Morality,’” Roosevelt Institute, http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/new-roosevelt/paul-ryan-borrows-page-ayn-rand-s-morality (accessed October 28, 2011).

21. Stephen Moore, “‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years,” Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB123146363567166677.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

22. Eric Sapp, “GOP Must Choose: Ayn Rand or Jesus,” American Values Network, May 27, 2011, http://americanvaluesnetwork.org/2011/05/gop-must-choose-ayn-rand-or-jesus (accessed October 28, 2011).

23. “The Smallest Minority on Earth,” The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 31, 2009, http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_033109/content/01125110.guest.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

24. Vladimir Shlapentokh, “How Is Elitist Ayn Rand a Tea Party Hero? The Contradiction Should Concern America,” Christian Science Monitor, October 14, 2010, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1014/How-is-elitist-Ayn-Rand-a-tea-party-hero-The-contradiction-should-concern-America (accessed October 28, 2011).

25. Seth Lubove and Oliver Staley, “Schools Find Ayn Rand Can’t Be Shrugged as Donors Build Courses” Bloomberg, May 5, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-05/schools-find-ayn-rand-can-t-be-shrugged-as-donors-build-courses.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

26. Ibid.

27. Yaron Brook, “‘Atlas Shrugged’ Sets a New Record,” Ayn Rand Institute, January 21, 2010, http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=24817 (accessed October 28, 2011).

28. Ernesto Tinajero, “Tales of Two Capitalisms: Ayn Rand vs. Horatio Alger,” Sojournes, February 5, 2010, http://blog.sojo.net/2010/02/05/tales-of-two-capitalisms-ayn-rand-vs-horatio-alger (accessed October 28, 2011).

29. Ibid.

30. House Republican Conference Press Office, “Hensarling Joins American Job Creators, House Republicans for Interactive Forum on Job Creation,” GOP.gov, March 16, 2011, http://www.gop.gov/press-release/11/03/16/hensarling-joins-american-job-creators (accessed October 28, 2011).

31. John Parkinson, “Dead on Arrival? Congress Divided on Obama’s Plan to Raise Taxes,” ABC News, September 19, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/congress-divided-on-presidents-deficit-reduction-plan (accessed October 28, 2011).

32. “Editorial: How Big Gov’t Strangles the Job Creators,” Investors.com, June 24, 2011, http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/576448/201106241829/Small-Business-And-Big-Govt.aspx (accessed October 28, 2011).

33. Daniel J. Mitchell, “Abolish the ‘Death Tax,’” Cato Institute, April 23, 2009, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10143 (accessed October 28, 2011).

34. Harlon L. Dalton, Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear between Blacks and Whites (New York: Double Day, 1995), 128.

35. Michael Moore, “Face It, You’ll Never Be Rich,” Znet, October 9, 2003, http://www.zcommunications.org/face-it-youll-never-be-rich-by-michael-moore (accessed October 28, 2011).

Chapter 2: Busting the Myth

1. Suzanne Mettler, “Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenge of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era,” Perspectives on Politics 8, no. 3 (2010), http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=7874753&jid=PPS&volumeId=8&issueId=&aid=7874752&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S1537592710002045 (accessed October 28, 2011).

2. Sara Robinson, “The Myth of the Self-Made American: Why Progressives Get No Respect,” Campaign for America’s Future, October 29, 2010, http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010104329/myth-self-made-american-why-progressives-get-no-respect (accessed October 28, 2011).

3. Gwendolyn Parker, “George W. Bush’s Secret of Success,” New York Times, May 28, 1999.

4. See note 2 above.

5. “Donald Trump Profile,” Forbes, May 2011, http://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump (accessed October 28, 2011).

6. “The Trump Organization,” Funding Universe, http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/The-Trump-Organization-Company-History.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

7. Robert Halasz and A. Woodward, “The Trump Organization,” CBS Interactive, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5202/is_1993/ai_n19122300/?tag=mantle_skin;content (accessed October 28, 2011).

8. “The Trump Organization, Inc.” Bloomberg Businessweek, http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=344985 (accessed October 28, 2011).

9. See note 6 above.

10. “The Trump Organization—Resurgence: 1994–97,” International Directory of Company Histories, http://www.enotes.com/company-histories/trump-organization/resurgence-1994-97 (accessed October 28, 2011).

11. “Donald Trump on Government Reform,” On the Issues, http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Government_Reform.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

12. “Trump Abuses Eminent Domain,” Club for Growth, April 19, 2011, http://www.clubforgrowth.org/perm/pr/?postID=893 (accessed October, 28 2011).

13. “Casino Reinvestment Development Authority v. Coking: The Abuse of Eminent Domain in Atlantic City,” Institute for Justice, http://www.ij.org/component/content/article/37-privatepropertyrights/1002-casino-reinvestment-development-authority-v-coking (accessed October 28, 2011).

14. “Donald Trump @ CPAC 2011,” YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlT9fAkj0XU (accessed October 28, 2011).

15. David Seaman, “Donald Trump: Obama Has Blown It; I’m Going to Announce My Decision about Running for President in June,” Business Insider, December 22, 2010, http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-my-economic-policies-would-vary-greatly-from-obamas-2010-12#ixzz1TQfh6W8E (accessed October 28, 2011).

16. “The Political Fray,” CNN All Politics, 1996, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/long.beach/perot/political.fray.shtml (accessed October 28, 2011).

17. “Reform Party History,” PBS, August 10, 2000, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec00/reform_history.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

18. “Henry Ross Perot,” Forbes, March 2011, http://www.forbes.com/profile/henry-ross-perot-sr (accessed October 28, 2011).

19. Ibid.

20. Gerald Posner, Citizen Perot: His Life and Times (New York: Random House, 1996), 10

21. Ibid., 14.

22. Ibid., 28.

23. Ibid., 26–33.

24. Ibid., 35.

25. Ibid., 38–39

26. Ibid., 34.

27. Ibid., 39.

28. Ibid., 46.

29. Ibid., 39.

30. Ibid., 41.

31. Ibid., 47

32. Doron P. Levin, “G.M. vs. Ross Perot: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” New York Times Magazine, March 26, 1989, http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/26/magazine/gm-vs-ross-perot-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do.html?src=pm (accessed October 28, 2011).

33. Andrew Vanacore, “Perot Systems: Dell Buys Ross Perot’s Company for $3.9 Billion,” Huffington Post, September 21, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/21/perot-systems-dell-buys-r_n_293201.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

34. See note 18 above.

35. “Mobility Decreasing in Recent Decades,” State of Working America, http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/charts/view/228 (accessed October 28, 2011).

36. “The United States Produces Less Mobility than Many of Its International Peers,” State of Working America, http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/charts/view/233 (accessed October 28, 2011).

37. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), 159.

38. “Inequality, Mobility, NDD Spending, and the American Dream,” On the Economy, September 10, 2011, http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/inequality-mobility-ndd-spending-and-the-american-dream (accessed October 28, 2011).

39. Emily Beller and Michael Hout, “Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective,” The Future of Children 16 (fall 2006), http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/docs/16_02_02.pdf (accessed October 28, 2011).

40. See note 38 above.

41. Avi Feller and Chad Stone, “Top 1 Percent of Americans Reaped Two-Thirds of Income Gains in Last Economic Expansion; Income Concentration in 2007 Was at Highest Level Since 1928, New Analysis Shows,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 9, 2009, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2908 (accessed October 28, 2011).

42. Jane Mayer, “Covert Operations: The Billionaire Brothers Who Are Waging a War against Obama,” The New Yorker, August 30, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer#ixzz1YgoAUGGZ (accessed October 28, 2011).

43. Ibid.

44. Yasha Levine, “7 Ways the Koch Bros. Benefit from Corporate Welfare,” The Exiled Online, September 4, 2010, http://exiledonline.com/a-people-history-of-koch-industries-part-ii-libertarian-billionaires-charles-and-david-koch-are-closetcase-subsidy-kings-who-milk-big-government-tyranny-but-want-to-slash-spending-on-anyone-else (accessed October 28, 2011).

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.

47. Bob Williams and Kevin Bogardus, “Koch’s Low Profile Belies Political Power,” Center for Public Integrity, July 15, 2004 (updated March 31, 2006), http://projects.publicintegrity.org/oil/report.aspx?aid=347 (accessed October 28, 2011).

48. See note 42 above.

49. Sarah Owen, “David Koch Gives President Obama Zero Credit for Bin Laden’s Death,” New York Magazine Online, May 5, 2011, http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/billionaire_conservative_david.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

50. See note 44 above.

51. See note 42 above.

52. Ibid.

53. Ibid.

54. Aili McConnon and Lawrence Delevingne, “Feeling Pinched, Some US Philanthropists Give More,” Bloomberg Businessweek, November 25, 2008, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_49/b4111054030529.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

55. Ibid.

56. Joshua Holland, “Ayn Rand Railed against Government Benefits, but Grabbed Social Security and Medicare When She Needed Them,” AlterNet, http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_against_government_benefits,_but_grabbed_social_security_and_medicare_when_she_needed_them (accessed October 28, 2011).

Chapter 3: The Built-Together Reality of Individual Success

1. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown), 74.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid., 131–32.

4. Ibid., 64–68.

5. Dave Kellogg, “Rise Early, Work Hard, and Strike Oil,” Kellblog, December 10, 2008, http://kellblog.com/2008/12/10/rise-early-work-hard-and-strike-oil (accessed October 28, 2011).

6. “Success as Mere Luck,” Literary Digest (1929), 9, as cited in Irvin Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1954), 157.

7. Alden Whitman, “J. Paul Getty Dead at 83; Amassed Billions from Oil,” New York Times Learning Network, June 6, 1976, http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1215.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

8. Gladwell, Outliers, 111–12.

9. Dalton Conley, Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), 49–53.

10. United for a Fair Economy, “Born on Third Base: The Sources of Wealth of the 1997 Forbes 400” (Boston: United for a Fair Economy, 1997).

11. Sam Pizzigati, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives (New York: Apex Press, 2004) 89.

12. Mazher Ali, Jeannette Huezo, Brian Miller, Wanjiku Mwangi, and Mike Prokosch, State of the Dream 2011: Austerity for Whom? (Boston: United for a Fair Economy, 2011), 3, http://www.faireconomy.org/files/State_of_the_Dream_2011.pdf (accessed October 28, 2011).

13. Jennifer Wang, “Mixed Signals: The State of Black Entrepreneurship,” Entrepreneur.com, March 9, 2009, http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/article200506.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

14. Ibid.

15. Sylvia Allegretto and Steven Pitts, “The State of Black Workers before the Great Recession,” UC Berkley Labor Center, July 23, 2010, http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/blackworkers/blackworkers_prerecession10.pdf (accessed October 28, 2011).

16. Cathy Keen, “Workplace Rewards Tall People with Money, Respect, UF Study Shows,” University of Florida News, October 16, 2003, http://news.ufl.edu/2003/10/16/heightsalary (accessed October 28, 2011).

17. Robert G. Lynch, Rethinking Growth Strategies: How State and Local Taxes and Services Affect Economic Development (Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2004), vii.

18. John F. Sargent Jr., “Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2011,” June 10, 2011, Congressional Research Service, http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/eyeonwashington/2011/documents/rdfunding.pdf (accessed November 14, 2011).

19. Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 214.

20. Helen Aki, Zachary Arnold, Genevieve Bennett, et al., “Case Studies in American Innovation,” December 2010, Breakthrough Institute, http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Case%20Studies%20in%20American%20Innovation%20report.pdf (accessed October 28, 2011).

21. Ibid., 17.

22. Human Genome Project Information, US Department of Energy Office of Science, http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml (accessed October 28, 2011).

23. John W. Kendrick, Lester C. Thurow, Edward F. Denison, et al., “The Decline in Productivity Growth,” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 1980, www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf/conf22/conf22.pdf (accessed October 28, 2011).

24. Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010), 3–6.

25. Abigail Disney, “Mickey Mouse, the Estate Tax and Me,” USA Today, August 30, 2010, http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-08-31-column31_ST_N.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

26. Robert Reich, “The Truth about the American Economy,” Salon, May 31, 2001, http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/31/the_truth_about_the_american_economy (accessed October 28, 2011).

27. Garrett Gruener, “I’m Rich; Tax Me More,” Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2010, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/20/opinion/la-oe-gruener-tax-the-rich-20100920 (accessed October 28, 2011).

28. John F. Witte, The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), 100.

29. Albert Einstein, “The World as I See It,” American Institute of Physics, http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

Chapter 4: Stories of Success and the Common Good

1. Irvin Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1954), 119–20.

2. Mike Lapham interviewed Jerry Fiddler on September 11, 2003, and July 21, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from those interviews.

3. Mike Lapham interviewed Glynn Lloyd on July 25, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from that interview.

4. “FDA History—Part I,” US Food and Drug Administration, http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/Origin/ucm054819.htm (accessed October 29, 2011).

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6. Ibid.

7. Robert Kutner, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 211.

8. Louis M. Hacker, Major Documents in American Economic History, Volume I (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1961), 89.

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13. Judy Pigott, “I’m a Genetic Lottery Winner—Tax Me!” Other Words, October 25, 2010, http://www.otherwords.org/articles/im_a_genetic_lottery_winner-tax_me (accessed October 28, 2011).

14. Mike Lapham interviewed Amy Domini on July 6, 2011.

15. “Estate Tax Speaker: John Russell,” United for a Fair Economy, http://faireconomy.org/issues/estate_tax/estate_tax_teleconference_november_2010/estate_tax_speaker_john_russell (accessed October 28, 2011).

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17. “High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program,” US Department of Transportation, http://www.fra.dot.gov/rpd/passenger/2243.shtml (accessed October 28, 2011).

18. Brian Miller interviewed Thelma Kidd on August 9, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from that interview.

19. “Slaton, TX Weather,” IDcide—Local Information Data Server, http://www.idcide.com/weather/tx/slaton.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

20. Julie R. Weeks, “Support for Women’s Enterprise in the United States: Lessons Learned,” National Association of Women Business Owners, http://www.nawbo.org/content_7845.cfm (accessed October 28, 2011).

21. “Warren Buffett,” Forbes, March 2011, http://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett (accessed October 28, 2011).

22. Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), 164.

23. Ibid.

24. Vahan Janjigian, “Warren Buffett’s Tax Fetish,” Forbes, May 1, 2008, http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/01/buffett-vahan-janjigian-pf-ii-in_ty_0430soapbox_inl.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

25. Todd A. Finkle, “Warren E. Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.,” Bnet, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5452/is_201005/ai_n56445240 (accessed October 28, 2011).

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27. Bill Freehling, “Buffett 101: What Does Berkshire Hathaway Own?” Examiner.com, July 18, 2009, http://www.examiner.com/warren-buffett-in-national/buffett-101-what-does-berkshire-hathaway-own (accessed October 28, 2011).

28. Larry Kanter, “Warren Buffett,” Salon, August 31, 1999, http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/08/31/buffett (accessed October 28, 2011).

29. Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks, 165.

30. Tom Bawden, “Buffett Blasts System That Lets Him Pay Less Than Secretary,” Times (London), June 28, 2007, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece (accessed July 27, 2011).

31. Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks, 168.

32. Warren Buffett, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” New York Times, August 14, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

33. Juliann Neher, “Warren Buffett Tells ABC Rich People Should Pay Higher Taxes,” Bloomberg, November 21, 2010, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-21/warren-buffett-tells-abc-rich-people-should-pay-more-in-taxes.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

34. Kevin Drawbaugh, “Buffett Backs Estate Tax, Decries Wealth Gap,” Reuters, November 14, 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/11/14/us-buffett-congress-idUSN1442383020071114 (accessed October 28, 2011).

35. Warren Buffett, “My Philanthropic Pledge,” CNN, June 16, 2010, http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/newsmakers/Warren_Buffett_Pledge_Letter.fortune (accessed October 28, 2011).

36. Mike Lapham interviewed Martin Rothenberg on September 25, 2003, and July 12, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from those interviews.

37. Robert M. Berdhahl, “The Privatization of Public Universities,” UC Berkeley, http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/sp/privatization.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

38. “Transcript of Morrill Act (1862),” Our Documents, http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=33&page=transcript (accessed October 28, 2011).

39. National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, “The Land-Grant Tradition,” Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, http://www.aplu.org/document.doc?id=780 (accessed October 28, 2011).

40. “The GI Bill’s History,” US Department of Veterans Affairs, http://www.gibill.va.gov/benefits/history_timeline/index.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

41. “Tuition and Fee and Room and Board Charges over Time,” Trends in College Pricing 2010, College Board Advocacy and Policy Center, http://trends.collegeboard.org/college_pricing/report_findings/indicator/Tuition_and_Fee_and_Room_and_Board_Charges_Over_Time (accessed October 4, 2011).

42. Ibid.

43. “Institutional Revenues: Public Appropriations over Time,” Trends in College Pricing 2010, College Board Advocacy and Policy Center, http://trends.collegeboard.org/college_pricing/report_findings/indicator/Institutional_Revenues_Public_Appropriations (accessed October 4, 2011).

44. Ibid.

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46. Ibid.

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50. Brian Miller interviewed Kim Jordan on August 30, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from that interview.

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56. Mike Lapham interviewed Anirvan Chatterjee on July 14, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from that interview.

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61. Ibid.

62. Lauren DuBois, “IIA Commends FCC’s Focus on Expanding High-Speed Internet to Rural America, Achieving Universal Broadband,” Business Wire, http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110624005754/en/IIA-Commends-FCC%E2%80%99s-Focus-Expanding-High-Speed-Internet (accessed October 29, 2011).

63. Ibid.

64. Chuck Collins interviewed Peter Barnes on October 15, 2003. Mike Lapham interviewed Barnes on July 6, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from those interviews.

65. Peter Barnes, “Capitalism, the Commons and Divine Right,” E. F. Schumacher Society, http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/publications/barnes_03.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

66. Peter Barnes, Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001), 118.

67. Chuck Collins, “Financial Markets as Commons,” On the Commons, http://onthecommons.org/financial-markets-commons (accessed October 29, 2011).

68. Carol Graham, Robert E. Litan, and Sandip Sukhtankar, “Cooking the Books: The Cost to the Economy,” Brookings Institution, http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2002/08business_graham.aspx (accessed October 29, 2011).

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70. Scott Klinger interviewed Amy Domini on December 23, 2003. Mike Lapham interviewed Domini on July 6, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from those interviews.

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79. Chuck Collins interviewed Jim Sherblom on December 12, 2003, and March 23, 2010. Mike Lapham interviewed Sherblom on July 18, 2011.

80. Brian Miller interviewed Nikhil Arora on July 22, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from that interview.

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85. Ibid.

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87. “The San Francisco Jobs Now Program,” Human Services Agency of San Francisco, http://www.sfhsa.org/asset/Home/PrivateandNPEmployersInfoPacketupdated090409.pdf (accessed October 29, 2011).

88. Mike Lapham interviewed Ben Cohen on October 2, 2003, and July 19, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from those interviews.

89. Constance L. Hays, “Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever, with Attitude,” New York Times, April 13, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/13/business/ben-jerry-s-to-unilever-with-attitude.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm (accessed October 29, 2011).

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91. Mike Lapham interviewed Gun Denhart on January 8, 2004, and July 13, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from those interviews.

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94. Kuttner, Everything for Sale, 192.

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98. Kuttner, Everything for Sale, 191.

99. See note 96 above.

100. Ibid.

101. Adam Hersh and Sara Ayres, “Disinvesting in America: The House Republican Budget Plan in Action,” Center for American Progress, April 14, 2011, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/04/disinvesting_america.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

102. Yuki Noguchi, “Showdown over Bush Cuts Revives Estate Tax Fight,” NPR, September 11, 2010, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129756032 (accessed October 29, 2010).

103. National press teleconference hosted by United for a Fair Economy, July 21, 2010.

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105. “Award Winners 2008,” TribecaFilm.com, http://www.tribecafilm.com/home/18455719.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

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107. See note 12 above.

108. See note 103 above.

109. See note 12 above.

110. See note 103 above.

111. Chuck Collins interviewed Jim Sherblom on December 12, 2003, and March 23, 2010. Mike Lapham interviewed Sherblom on July 18, 2011. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent information was obtained from those interviews.

Chapter 5: Policy Implications and the Public Investment Imperative

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16. Jackie Calmes, “Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires,” New York Times, September 17, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/politics/obama-tax-plan-would-ask-more-of-millionaires.html?pagewanted=all (accessed October 29, 2011).

17. Andrew Carnegie, World’s Work XVII (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909), 11050, as cited in Irvin G. Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1954), 89–90.

18. “Estate Tax Speaker: Jerry Fiddler,” United for a Fair Economy, http://faireconomy.org/issues/estate_tax/estate_tax_teleconference_november_2010/estate_tax_speaker_jerry_fiddler (accessed October 29, 2011).

19. Robert Rubin and Julian Robertson, “Bring Back the Estate Tax Now,” Wall Street Journal, September 1, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959704575454073982825164.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

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21. William H. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002).

22. Kevin Drawbaugh, “Buffett Backs Estate Tax, Decries Wealth Gap,” Reuters, November 14, 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/11/14/us-buffett-congress-idUSN1442383020071114 (accessed October 29, 2011).

23. Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica C. Smith, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009,” US Census Bureau, September 2010, http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf (accessed October 29, 2011).

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25. Philip Rucker, “Mitt Romney Says ‘Corporations Are People’ at Iowa State Fair,” Washington Post, August 11, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-says-corporations-are-people/2011/08/11/gIQABwZ38I_story.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

26. Catherine Poe, “Top Ten List: Tax Evaders’ Wall of Shame,” Washington Times Communities, April 11, 2011, http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame (accessed October 29, 2011).

27. “G.E. and Corporate Tax Fairness,” A Civil American Debate, March 29, 2011, http://acivilamericandebate.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/g-e-and-corporate-tax-fairness (accessed October 29, 2011).

28. Chuck Collins, “The Business Case against Overseas Tax Havens,” Huffington Post, July 20, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chuck-collins/the-business-case-against_b_652832.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

29. Stephen Lacey, “Obama Proposes Cutting Oil and Gas Subsidies $41 Billion to Help Fund Jobs Package,” Think Progress, September 13, 2011, http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/09/13/318266/fund-jobs-package-obama-proposes-cutting-oil-and-gas-subsidies (accessed September 30, 2011).

30. George Washington, State of the Union Address 1790, January 8, 1790, InfoPlease, http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/state-of-the-union/1.html#ixzz1Q74LcPOs (accessed October 28, 2011).

31. See note 5 above.

32. “Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from April 2011 through June 2011,” Congressional Budget Office, August 2011, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/123xx/doc12385/08-24-ARRA.pdf (accessed October 29, 2011).

33. “Summary: Opportunity in America,” The Future of Children 16 (fall 2006), http://www.brookings.edu/es/research/projects/foc/foc_16_2_summary.pdf (accessed October 29, 2011).

34. Dean Baker, “Will Obamacare Make the US More Like Europe?” Huffington Post, August 4, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/will-obamacare-make-the-u_b_250768.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

35. Ibid.

36. Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010), 3.

37. Mike Lapham interviewed Amy Domini on July 6, 2011.

38. Nick Carey, “Special Report: Is America the Sick Man of the Globe?” Reuters, December 16, 2010, http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/16/us-usa-economy-special-idUSTRE6BF28720101216 (accessed October 29, 2011).

39. “Estate Tax Speaker: Jean Gordon,” United for a Fair Economy, http://faireconomy.org/estate_tax_teleconference_nov_2010/jean_gordon (accessed October 28, 2011).

40. “About the King Arthur Flour Company,” King Arthur Flour, http://www.kingarthurflour.com/about (accessed October 29, 2011).

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42. Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, Scott Klinger, and Sam Pizzigati, “Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging,” Institute for Policy Studies, August 31, 2011, http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/executive_excess_2011_the_massive_ceo_rewards_for_tax_dodging/ (accessed October 29, 2011).

43. “Shareholder Votes on Executive Compensation at US Firms Have Been Judicious as well as Effective, New Research Finds,” American Accounting Association, July 21, 2010, http://aaahq.org/newsroom/ShareholderVotes.htm (accessed October 29, 2011).

44. Labor Law Center, “Federal Minimum Wage Increase for 2007, 2008, and 2009,” http://www.laborlawcenter.com/t-federal-minimum-wage.aspx (accessed October 29, 2011).

45. “Minimum Wage History,” Oregon State University, updated February 22, 2011, http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html (accessed October 29, 2011).

46. Todd J. Kumler, “Living Wage Ordinances,” Res Publica—Journal of Undergraduate Research 12 (2007), http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/respublica/vol12/iss1/4 (accessed October 29, 2011).

47. Mazher Ali, Jeannette Huezo, Brian Miller, Wanjiku Mwangi, and Mike Prokosch, State of the Dream 2011: Austerity for Whom? (Boston: United for a Fair Economy, 2011), v.

48. Ibid.

Conclusion: A Call to Action

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2. Ashlea Ebeling, “Tax Me, Please,” Forbes, October 6, 2010, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2010/10/06/tax-me-please (accessed October 29, 2011).

3. Warren E. Buffett, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” New York Times, August 14, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=1&hp (accessed October 29, 2011).

4. Jim Kuhnhenn, “Obama Unveils Deficit Reduction Plan, ‘Buffett Rule’ Tax on Millionaires,” Huffington Post, September 19, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/obama-deficit-plan-buffet-rule-taxes-medicare_n_969403.html (accessed October 29, 2011).