Shakedown : the continuing conspiracy against the American taxpayer / Steven Malanga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malanga, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government spending policy--United States.

Government spending policy.

Taxation--United States.

Taxation.

Government employee unions--United States.

Government employee unions.

Community activists--United States.

Community activists.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As their infatuation with President Obama fades, millions of Americans anxiously ask, Is this the change we were waiting for? The current administration represents change, for sure, Steven Malanga argues - a momentous transformation of the fundamental structure of American politics. A self-interested coalition of public-sector unions and government-financed community activists (like the young Barack Obama) has become our era's characteristic political machine. In Shakedown, Mr. Malanga shows how this machine's single-minded goal is always bigger government and more public spending. The bill,

Contents:

The conspiracy against the taxpayers

The bill is coming due

California's road to serfdom

The mob that whacked New Jersey

We don't need another war on poverty

America's worst urban program

The movement to undermine welfare reforms

The religious left, reborn

The advocates and Washington's housing disorders

A culture of entitlement everywhere.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-36201-2

1-283-05695-X

9786613056955

1-56663-966-2

OCLC:

711748957