Friday, January 18, 2008

Free Lunch: How Wealthy Dine at the Government Trough & You Pay the Bill!

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston is interviewed on Democracy Now! and talks about his new book, “Free Lunch: How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill).” Johnston reveals how government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the rich and politically connected.

Here's a link to his 2004 interview on how our tax system helps the wealthy and hurts the poor.

This guy really knows his stuff.

Watch video or read transcript at Democracy Now!

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