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" Free lunch : "
David Cay Johnston.
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BL
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750370
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b570329
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David Cay Johnston.
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Free lunch : : how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government expense (and stick you with the bill)\ David Cay Johnston.
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New York : Portfolio, 2008
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(viii, 323 pages)
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1429581433
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: 1429581468
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: 1591841917
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: 9781429581431
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: 9781429581462
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: 9781591841913
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| Contents
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Without even asking --; Mr. Reagan's question --; Trust and consequences --; Chinese magnetism --; Seizing the commons --; Pride and profits --; Your land is my land --; Bounty hunters --; Goin' fishin' --; Just say no --; Beauty and the bounty --; False alarm --; Home robbery --; Indentured scholars --; Selling the furniture --; Suffer the little children --; Trojan horse --; Sightless sheriffs --; Paying twice --; Rising snow --; Unhealthy economics --; Less for more --; Hooked on drugs --; "I'm being trapped" --; None dare call it stealing --; Not since Hoover --; Conclusions : what to do?
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How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? This book answers this great economic question, revealing how today's government policies and spending benefit the wealthy. Johnston shows how, under the guise of deregulation, a whole new set of regulations quietly went into effect--thwarting competition, depressing wages, and rewarding misconduct. Revelations include: how we ended up with the most expensive yet inefficient health-care system in the world; how homeowners' title insurance became a costly, deceitful, yet almost invisible oligopoly; how our government gives hidden subsidies for posh golf courses; how baseball team owners will collect more than
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Subsidies -- United States.
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Subsidies.
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United States.
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HC110.S9D385 2008
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David Cay Johnston
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