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UNINA9910789631003321 |
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Autore |
Malanga Steven |
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Titolo |
Shakedown [[electronic resource] ] : the continuing conspiracy against the American taxpayer / / Steven Malanga |
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Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, c2010 |
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1-283-05695-X |
9786613056955 |
1-56663-966-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Government spending policy - United States |
Taxation - United States |
Government employee unions - United States |
Community activists - United States |
United States Social policy 1993- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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