● “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill)”
On Democracy Now January 18, 2008
David Cay Johnston reveals how government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the (politically connected) rich.
David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the New York Times. His latest book is titled Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill). He is also author of the bestselling book Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else.
David Cay Johnston reveals how government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the (politically connected) rich.
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