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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill) (Hardcover book)
by David Cay Johnston (Author) Available online for less than $20.
The book provides an insight into why and how large investors and federal, state and local governments are using public taxpayer funds and property for their gains and profits. The several examples are similar to taking valuable and scarce public lakefront property for upscale resorts and using taxpayer funds to accomplish their objectives.
Review
“If you’re concerned about congressional earmarks, stock options (especially backdated options), hedge fund tax breaks, abuse of eminent domain, subsidies to sports teams, K Street lobbyists, the state of our health-care system, to say nothing of the cavernous gap between rich and poor, you’ll read this fine book—as I did—with a growing sense of outrage.
Free Lunch makes it clear that it’s high time for ‘We the People’ to stand up and be counted.”
—John C. Bogle, founder and former chairman, The Vanguard Group
