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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... funds like Social Security and Medicare ) ' ⚫ enough money to eliminate the federal debt in just over eight years ( the total is now $ 6.6 trillion , accumulated over 200 - plus years ) 2 ⚫ more than four times what we spend on ...
... funding has often shifted to less - scrutinized parts of the budget . According to Jim Riccio , who works on nuclear issues for Public Citizen , " All those victories we've been getting have turned into lessons learned for industry and ...
... fund worthwhile things like teachers and parks and hospitals . ) But since corporations and wealthy individuals derive most of the benefit from what the government does , I think they should pay their fair share of taxes . They say they ...
... funds from taxation . Handcrafted tax breaks like this are nothing new . Movie mogul Louis B. Mayer had a provision inserted into the Revenue Act of 1951 that clas- sified his retirement package as capital gains rather than 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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