Book Review — Free Lunch, How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

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Free Lunch, How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston documents many of the ways that politicians and business owners collude to transfer massive amounts of tax revenues into the pockets of these business owners. Johnston is a reporter at the NYT and his beat is tax policy. Much of what he writes about here is derived from this NYT reporting. I often think of him as being one of the last best reasons to read that paper.

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I saved $23.92

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How much would the lifting the gas tax benefit you? Editor's Note: I'm donating my $14.57 Link to Delaware Liberal's Act Blue Page For Obama

Absurd!

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What's absurd is Clinton's spin and the way the MSM regurgitates her double standard all over the airways. It is absurd, aides say, to think that Clinton can overcome Obama's…

You’re Doin’ A Heck of A Job There, Mr. Bush!

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On the eve of the DE Republican Convention, we should note that it turns out that 7 years of the Worst.President.Ever. has the amazing side benefit of creating new, young Democratic voters. A new poll from Pew shows that the previous CW about Dems having a slight advantage among younger voters (18-29 year olds) may be shifting considerably. Younger voters ID themselves as Dems by a 58-33 margin (25 points), while in 2004 the margin was 51-40 (11 points).

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And it looks as though the last time there was such a big spread in young voter identification was when Nixon was President.