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Take the rich off welfare

Using accessible language and revealing graphics, this new, expanded edition of the 1996 classic is a biting analysis of government subsidies, tax breaks and scams for big business and wealthy individuals
Print Book, English, ©2004
New, expanded ed View all formats and editions
South End Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©2004
vii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780896087071, 9780896087064, 0896087077, 0896087069
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Social security inequities
Tax breaks for homeowners
Runaway pensions
Tax avoidance by transnationals
Lower taxes on capital gains
Accelerated depreciation
Insurance loopholes
Business meals and entertainment
Tax-free muni bonds
Export subsidies
Military waste and fraud
The S & L bailout
Agribusiness subsidies
Media handouts
Nuclear subsidies
Aviation subsidies
Mining subsidies
Oil and gas tax breaks
Timber subsidies
Synfuel tax credits
Ozone tax exemptions
A bouquet of miscellaneous ripoffs
What's been left out
Appendix A: welfare for the poor