Take the Rich off Welfare

When the first version of this book came out in 1996, on the heels of "Welfare Reform," it was received with great popular acclaim. As Jim Hightower put it, "At last, the real welfare scandal [is] revealed in one handy little -volume."
But the scandal was still in the making. The total amount of taxpayers’ money going to subsidize corporations and rich individuals has grown from about $448 billion to over $800 billion—and the amount of that tax money that comes from those flush companies and individuals continues to shrink.
In this greatly expanded and updated version of Take the Rich off Welfare, Mark Zepezauer still details who’s on the government dole and how much they’re getting. This time around, though, he has slowed down his rapid firing of the latest names and numbers in order to reveal how it all works. Using accessible language and revealing graphics, he takes the time to explain how programs once intended to profit the public have been warped to benefit only the corporate bottom line; how administrations manipulate the tax code to slide their extortion from the bottom half past congressional oversight; and how the politicians from both parties employ budget doubletalk and paper trickery to make it look as if the economy isn’t being sucked further into a sinkhole in order to line the pockets of the few.
A prolific writer of humorous but cutting analyses of government policy and its fallout, Zepezauer provides us with the tools we need to expose the political chicanery of current and past administrations, and make it much more difficult for politicians to play Three Card Monte with our money and our future. To the rallying cry of fiscal conservatives who claim that government must shrink, Zepezauer offers an easy answer. Shrink you.
Mark Zepezauer has worked as a journalist, editor and publisher since 1985. His articles, columns and reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, In These Times and the Arizona Daily Star. Zepezauer also wrote two Real Story books (now published by South End Press): The CIA’s Greatest Hits (1994) and the first version of Take the Rich Off Welfare (1996), which have sold over 25,000 and 22,000 copies respec

Business & Money

Zepezauer, Mark

Economics

South End Press

When the first version of this book came out in 1996, on the heels of "Welfare Reform," it was received with great popular acclaim. As Jim Hightower put it, "At last, the real welfare scandal [is] revealed in one handy little -volume."But the scandal was still in the making. The total amount of taxpayers’ money going to subsidize corporations and rich individuals has grown from about $448 billion to over $800 billion—and the amount of that tax money that comes from those flush companies and individuals continues to shrink.In this greatly expanded and updated version of Take the Rich off Welfare, Mark Zepezauer still details who’s on the government dole and how much they’re getting. This time around, though, he has slowed down his rapid firing of the latest names and numbers in order to reveal how it all works. Using accessible language and revealing graphics, he takes the time to explain how programs once intended to profit the public have been warped to benefit only the corporate bottom line; how administrations manipulate the tax code to slide their extortion from the bottom half past congressional oversight; and how the politicians from both parties employ budget doubletalk and paper trickery to make it look as if the economy isn’t being sucked further into a sinkhole in order to line the pockets of the few.A prolific writer of humorous but cutting analyses of government policy and its fallout, Zepezauer provides us with the tools we need to expose the political chicanery of current and past administrations, and make it much more difficult for politicians to play Three Card Monte with our money and our future. To the rallying cry of fiscal conservatives who claim that government must shrink, Zepezauer offers an easy answer. Shrink you.Mark Zepezauer has worked as a journalist, editor and publisher since 1985. His articles, columns and reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, In These Times and the Arizona Daily Star. Zepezauer also wrote two Real Story books (now published by South End Press): The CIA’s Greatest Hits (1994) and the first version of Take the Rich Off Welfare (1996), which have sold over 25,000 and 22,000 copies respec

Boomerang!: How Our Covert Wars Have Created Enemies Across the Middle East and Bring Terror to America

From Afghanistan to Turkey, from the Caspian Sea to the Sudan, the U.S. has ripped through one country after another in the Middle East and elsewhere, manipulating and marauding for its own benefit. This is a history with which Arabs and Muslims are painfully familiar, but which Americans can no longer afford to ignore.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Common Courage Press

From the author of The CIA’s Greatest Hits comes a gripping read exposing U.S. terror that has finally come home to roost.From Afghanistan to Turkey, from the Caspian Sea to the Sudan, the U.S. has ripped through one country after another in the Middle East and elsewhere, manipulating and marauding for its own benefit.Zepezauer takes his title from Herbert Hoover's comment made right after Pearl Harbor: "You can't keep sticking needles in a rattlesnake and expect not to get bitten."This is a history with which Arabs and Muslims are painfully familiar, but which Americans can no longer afford to ignore. For years the Middle East has seethed over our country's support for the expulsion of Palestinians and the occupation of their land; for the ongoing sanctions that have killed over one million Iraqis; and for hated but US-friendly regimes in Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. Dissidents are tortured with equipment marked "made in the USA," children are killed by US-built missiles and bombs, and millions live in poverty while we send billions of dollars to help their oppressors stay in power.As one Sudanese villager summed it up: "We know that somebody comes from another country and takes our oil." Americans need to know what's being done in our name to take the oil we use every day. To look the other way is to put our children and grandchildren at risk while our taxes pay to keep needling the rattlesnake.

The CIA’s Greatest Hits details how the CIA: hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learnedand usedtheir techniques has been involved in assassinations, bombings, massacres, wars, death squads, drug trafficking, and rigged elections all over the world tortures children as young as 13 and adults as old as 89, resulting in forced confessions” to all sorts of imaginary crimes (an innocent Kuwaiti was tortured for months to make him keep repeating his initial lies, and a supposed al-Qaeda leader was waterboarded 187 times in a single month without producing a speck of useful information) orchestrates the mediawhich one CIA deputy director liked to call the mighty Wurlitzer”and places its agents inside newspapers, magazines and book publishers and much more. The CIA’s crimes continue unabated, and unpunished. The day before General David Petraeus took over as the twentieth CIA director, federal prosecutors announced that they were dropping 99 investigations into the deaths of people in CIA custody, leaving just two active cases they’re willing to pursue. The first edition of The CIA’s Greatest Hits sold more than 38,000 copies. This fully revised and updated second edition contains six completely new chapters.

The CIA's Greatest Hits (Real Story)

History

Americas

Catapult

The CIA's many attempts to assassinate democracy are described in 42 brief chapters, each accompanied by a cartoon.

The CIA's Greatest Hits (The Real Story Series)

Odonian Press

Exposes "wealthfare," wasteful government spending on the wealthy, gives specific dollar amounts spent, and offers solutions to the waste

Take the Rich Off Welfare (Real Story Series)

NAIMAN, ARTHUR

Odonian Pr

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Take the Rich off Welfare

Take the Rich off Welfare

Boomerang!: How Our Covert Wars Have Created Enemies Across the Middle East and Bring Terror to America

Boomerang!: How Our Covert Wars Have Created Enemies Across the Middle East and Bring Terror to America

The CIA's Greatest Hits (Real Story)

The CIA's Greatest Hits (The Real Story Series)

Take the Rich Off Welfare (Real Story Series)