: About Me

Tom was born in Yonkers, NY and  moved to Arizona after college in 1994. after being a top agent for NY Life Insurance. He decided to become an independent broker  in 2005 (Lotusbenefits.com) and is now a successful enterpreneur and author of the column 'Conservative Issues from the Desert'. He calls Glendale, AZ his home, where he does volunteer work for conservative issues around the state.

Conservative, funny and a candidly frank speaker, Tom is available for consultation and speaking engagements on subjects from politics to marketing. He is currently hard at work on his new novel, "The Return of the Kings".

You can read more of his rantings at www.thomas-purcell.com , as well as excerpts from his novel, where he welcomes comments, discussion and offers free subscriptions.

My passion is ...

Finance and Insurance

I know too much about ...

Star Wars

My parents always told me ...

always do the right thing, no matter the cost

My childhood ambition ...

was to be President of the US

My favorite memory ...

early school age. I miss the simplicity.

Why I write ...

to help promote awareness and understanding about how life insurance, health insurance and annuities actually work without the bias of a commission

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Chilltrax on iTunes

My first job ...

delivering milk to rural communities in Southern California

My inspiration ...

Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Is taxation a vice or a virtue?

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In the course of my daily phone calls, I came into contact with a rather interesting fellow, a 72 year old Buddhist that for the sake of his privacy I'll call 'Teth'. I had been referred to to him to handle some of his insurance affairs, which turned out to be minor. But we hit it off, and as conversations with me are oft to do, it turned to politics. It seems Teth was a Tibetan refugee from Chinese oppression and some of his insights on China and its action were interesting in light of now and future changes to America. IN fact although he too, was concerned with many things he was seeing...

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