Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
Eric AltermanIf newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
Eric AltermanHistory is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
Eric AltermanThere are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
Eric Alterman