Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else

Johnston, David Cay

ISBN 10: 1591840198 / ISBN 13: 9781591840190

Published by Portfolio Hardcover, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else
• Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591840198
• ISBN 13: 9781591840190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 20 ounces

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Synopsis

Identifies practices of discreet lobbying and tax policy manipulation that have been occurring since the mid 1970s and how they have resulted in benefits for the wealthiest people in American society, identifying ways in which the working class is being made to pay the majority of the nation's income taxes. 35,000 first printing.

About the Author

David Cay Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize and shared in another for his investigative reporting in The New York Times, for which he has written since 1995. Prior to that he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit Free Press, and the San Jose Mercury News. Johnston is a frequent guest on NPR's Fresh Air.