Shakedown : the continuing conspiracy against the American taxpayer / / Steven Malanga

• Autore: Malanga Steven
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 336.73
• Soggetto topico: Government spending policy - United States; Taxation - United States; Government employee unions - United States; Community activists - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social policy 1993-
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Shakedown
• ISBN: 979-82-16-36201-2; 1-283-05695-X; 9786613056955; 1-56663-966-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969943303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II