Take the Rich Off Welfare
by Zepezauer, Mark; Naiman, ArthurFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-09-01
Publisher(s): L P C Group
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Summary
This tightly written, fact-filled book covers the S&L bailout, subsidies to the agriculture, airline, automobile, chemical, energy, logging, media, mining, oil and weapons industries, tax loopholes for accelerated depreciation, advertising, banking, business meals and entertainment, capital gains, insurance and overseas marketing, and much more. Tables, charts, illustrations.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. 3 |
| About the Authors | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 6 |
| Military Waste and Fraud: ($172 billion a year) | p. 13 |
| Social Security Tax Inequities: ($53 billion a year) | p. 35 |
| Accelerated Depreciation: ($37 billion a year) | p. 38 |
| Lower Taxes on Capital Gains: ($37 billion a year, not counting home sales) | p. 41 |
| The SandL Bailout: ($32 billion, every year for thirty years) | p. 45 |
| Homeowners' Tax Breaks: ($26 billion a year) | p. 52 |
| Agribusiness Subsidies: ($18 billion a year) | p. 56 |
| Tax Avoidance by Transnationals: ($12 billion a year) | p. 69 |
| Tax-Free Muni Bonds: ($9.1 billion a year) | p. 73 |
| Media Handouts: ($8 billion a year) | p. 75 |
| Excessive Government Pensions: ($7.6 billion a year) | p. 80 |
| Insurance Loopholes: ($7.2 billion a year) | p. 82 |
| Nuclear Subsidies :($7.1 billion a year) | p. 85 |
| Aviation Subsidies: ($5.5 billion a year) | p. 94 |
| Business Meals and Entertainment: ($5.5 billion a year) | p. 95 |
| Mining Subsidies: ($3.5 billion a year) | p. 96 |
| Oil and Gas Tax Breaks: ($2.4 billion a year) | p. 100 |
| Export Subsidies: ($2 billion a year) | p. 103 |
| Synfuel Tax Credits: ($1.2 billion a year) | p. 106 |
| Timber Subsidies: ($427 million a year, not counting tax breaks) | p. 107 |
| Ozone Tax Exemptions: ($320 million a year) | p. 111 |
| A Bouquet of Miscellaneous Rip-Offs: ($1.6 billion a year) | p. 113 |
| What We've Left Out: (untold billions every year) | p. 115 |
| What You Can Do About All This | p. 129 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 140 |
| Glossary | p. 146 |
| Welfare for the Poor | p. 157 |
| Where We Got Our Facts | p. 162 |
| Index | p. 178 |
| Other Books in the Real Story Series | p. 192 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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