Take the Rich Off WelfareSouth End Press, 2004 - 183 sidor When the first version of this book came out in 1996, on the heels of "Welfare Reform," it was received with great popular acclaim. As Jim Hightower put it, "At last, the real welfare scandal [is] revealed in one handy little -volume." But the scandal was still in the making. The total amount of taxpayers' money going to subsidize corporations and rich individuals has grown from about $448 billion to over $800 billion--and the amount of that tax money that comes from those flush companies and individuals continues to shrink. In this greatly expanded and updated version of Take the Rich off Welfare, Mark Zepezauer still details who's on the government dole and how much they're getting. This time around, though, he has slowed down his rapid firing of the latest names and numbers in order to reveal how it all works. Using accessible language and revealing graphics, he takes the time to explain how programs once intended to profit the public have been warped to benefit only the corporate bottom line; how administrations manipulate the tax code to slide their extortion from the bottom half past congressional oversight; and how the politicians from both parties employ budget doubletalk and paper trickery to make it look as if the economy isn't being sucked further into a sinkhole in order to line the pockets of the few. A prolific writer of humorous but cutting analyses of government policy and its fallout, Zepezauer provides us with the tools we need to expose the political chicanery of current and past administrations, and make it much more difficult for politicians to play Three Card Monte with our money and our future. To the rallying cry of fiscal conservatives who claim that government must shrink, Zepezauer offers an easy answer. Shrink you. Mark Zepezauer has worked as a journalist, editor and publisher since 1985. His articles, columns and reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, In These Times and the Arizona Daily Star. Zepezauer also wrote two Real Story books (now published by South End Press): The CIA's Greatest Hits (1994) and the first version of Take the Rich Off Welfare (1996), which have sold over 25,000 and 22,000 copies respec |
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... course my own , unless I'm mistaken . You can send hate mail or fan mail to me at comicnews@earthlink.net , but mention the book in the subject line or you're likely to be deleted as spam . Introduction ealthfare - the money government ...
... course , estimates . If they seem high to you , cut them all by 50 % or 75 % ; welfare for the rich would still cost more than welfare for the poor . In fact , $ 815 billion is definitely an underestimate . Limitations of time and space ...
... course , that's even more true of welfare for the poor , which benefits grocery stores , su- permarkets , clothing stores , landlords , doctors , dentists , etc. Furthermore , many welfare programs pay for themselves many times over in ...
... course . What else ? See the section called " The Waters of Babylon " on pp . 91-92 . ) In any case , it's not as if the money currently spent on wealthfare would suddenly evaporate if we weren't handing it over to the rich . It would ...
... course that would be un - American . Thanks to a series of tax " reforms " that began in 1977 , the rate paid by the richest Americans has been cut nearly in half , while Social Security taxes which are paid overwhelmingly by ordinary ...
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Social Security Inequities 85 billion a year | 14 |
Tax Breaks for Homeowners 321 billion a year | 19 |
Runaway Pensions 76 billion a year | 24 |
Tax Avoidance by Transnational 1372 billion a year | 28 |
Lower Texes on Capital Gains 898 billion a year | 34 |
Accelerated Depreciation 85 billion a year | 38 |
Insurance Loopholes 235 billion a year | 41 |
Business Meals and Entertainment 88 billion a year | 45 |
Aviation Subsidies 5 billion a year | 112 |
Mining Subsidies 47 billion a year | 115 |
Oil and Gas Tax Breaks 17 billion a year | 119 |
Timber Subsidies 976 million a year | 122 |
Synfuel Tax Credits 600 million a year | 126 |
Ozone Tax Exemptions 320 million a year | 128 |
A Bouquet of Miscellaneous Ripoffs 164 billion a year | 130 |
Whats Been Left Out untold billions every year | 133 |
TaxFree Muni Bonds 64 billion a year | 46 |
Export Subsidies 18 billion a year | 48 |
Military Waste and Fraud 224 billion a year | 54 |
The SCL Bailout 32 billion a year | 76 |
Agribusiness Subsidies 305 billion a year | 82 |
Media Handouts 142 billion a year | 98 |
Nuclear Subsidies 10 billion a year | 104 |
Welfare for the Poor 193 billion a year | 142 |
Glossary | 147 |
Endnotes | 156 |
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