iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Col Tom Parker

The Elvis Index: Why the Rich Should Pay a Lot More on Tax Day

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 06.17.2012 | Politics
Read More: Tax Fairness, Gini Coefficient, Tax Justice, Income Inequity, Elvis Presley, Col. Tom Parker, Congress Buffett Rule, Obama Buffett Rule, Buffett Rule, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Too many of our leaders in Washington want to tell us that the only solution is for us to accept less and less -- less infrastructure, less education, less financial security -- while the rich continue to enjoy these low rates or even lower ones yet to come.

Read Whole Story

This Economy Needs a Little More Elvis, a Lot Less Milton Friedman

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 10.18.2011 | Business
Read More: Debt Ceiling, Michele Bachmann, Shock Doctrine, Patty Murray, John Kerry, Max Baucus, Financial Crisis, Rick Perry, Stock Market, Super Committee, Elvis Presley, Eliot Spitzer, Barack Obama, Col. Tom Parker, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

In a week that marked the 34th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, it's once again time to sing his old hit: "We need a little less conversation, a lot more action."

Read Whole Story