About

The 2024 election demonstrated, among other things, the overwhelming discontent among U.S. citizens with the way our elected representatives have allowed for the unbridled growth of extreme wealth at the expense of the economic opportunity and well-being of most Americans.

TGB–Tax the Greedy Billionaires–was launched in February 2025 in response to this crisis and to reflect the anger that showed itself at the polls. With the support of the WhyNot Initiative, TGB conducted studies of an income surtax and the Five and Dime Tax, polled public sentiment on taxing billionaires, and began to engage elected representatives and allies around tax policies that only taxed the ultra-rich, or at the very least, taxed the ultra-rich first.

One of the early lessons was that a central hub focused on extreme wealth was needed, a place that could foster and coordinate additional research on all things related to extreme wealth. And thus, on Bastille Day 2025 the Extreme Wealth Center (EWC) was launched.

EWC’s purpose is to fund research about the top 0.1% and the societal impacts of extreme wealth, and to do educational outreach to policy makers, media, philanthropists, and the public.

While tax policy is the immediate focus, the longer-term objective is to change the narrative around the ultra-rich, moving away from a culture of greed to one of shared prosperity.

The EWC is managed by three co-directors. See their bios. It is a project of the Tides Foundation.