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" The big ripoff : "
Timothy P. Carney.
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BL
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986917
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b741287
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| Main Entry
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Carney, Timothy P.,1978-
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The big ripoff : : how big business and big government steal your money /\ Timothy P. Carney.
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Hoboken, N.J. :: J. Wiley & Sons,, ©2006.
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xiv, 285 pages ;; 23 cm
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0471789070
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: 9780471789079
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.
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| Contents
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The Big Ripoff: The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled -- Part I. Friends in High Places -- The Parties of Big Business: Corporate America Loves both Republicans and Democrats [and] Republicans and Democrats Love Big Business -- The History of Big Business: ... Is the History of Big Government -- Part II. Corporate Welfare -- Robin Hood in Reverse: Corporate Welfare in America -- Boeing's Bank: The Export-Import Bank of the United States -- Eminent Domain for Corporate Gain: The "Public Purpose" of Big Business -- Part III. Regulate Me! -- Regulators and Robber Barons: How Government Regulation Protects the Big Guys and Rips Off the Little Guys -- The War Against Tobacco: Why Phillip Morris is Leading It -- You Get Taxed, They Get Rich: Why Big Business Loves High Taxes -- Part IV. Green: The Color of Money -- Environmentalism for Profit: How bad Environmentalism Laws Give Your Money to Big Business -- Enron: A Big-Government Scandal -- Ethanol and Archer Daniels Midland: Corporate Moonshiners on the Dole.
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An examination of the ways mega-corporations profit through a complex web of tax breaks, regulations, and government handouts.
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Business and politics-- United States.
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Corporations-- Political activity-- United States.
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Business and politics.
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Corporations-- Political activity.
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Wirtschaftspolitik
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United States.
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USA.
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322/.30973
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JK467.C39 2006
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