YES! Magazine, February 12, 2012
The United States isn’t broke, as some Republican say; we’re a very wealthy and productive country. The problem is that our wealth and productivity gains flow disproportionately to the rich in the form of dividends, capital gains, rent and interest. If we want to remain a middle class nation, that needs to change.
Scientific American, December 1, 2008
Cap and dividend would unite Americans in the fight against climate change in a way that no other policy would — as citizens who are all co-owners and caretakers of the air.
US News & World Report, June 16, 2008
You divvy it up. One person, one share. Wired to your bank account like Social Security.
Washington DC, September 18, 2008
I COME BEFORE this committee to discuss cap and dividend, a climate policy that is simple, fair, effective and market-based. Cap and dividend allows us to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the levels scientists are calling for, while protecting the incomes and purchasing power of American families.
OnTheCommons.org, 2003
ALL AMERICANS are joint owners of a trove of hidden assets. These assets — natural gifts like air and water, and social creations like science and the Internet — constitute our shared inheritance. The trouble is, our common wealth — and our children’s — is being squandered.
State of the Commons 2003
Noe Valley Voice, June 1994
PHONE BILLS and credit card charges—they come due every month without fail. But if you’re a member of Working Assets Funding Service, you can pay the bills and help change the world at the same time.
Business and Society Review, Summer 1989
TO BE ETHICAL as a business because it may increase your profits is to do so for entirely the wrong reason. The ethical business must be ethical because it wants to be ethical.
The New Republic, June 14, 1975
NOT LONG AGO a West Coast bank president mentioned to me that a piece of land he had purchased along- side a new state highway had doubled in value in a few years. His windfall is an example of what John Stuart Mill called the “unearned increment.”
The New Republic, March 15, 1975
PEOPLE HAVE two main complaints about jobs these days: there aren’t enough of them, and most of those that do exist are pretty unsatisfying.
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