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

ISBN: 1591840198

ISBN13: 9781591840190

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

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Now updated with a new prologue Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax have been largely ignored by the media. But the cumulative results are remarkable: today someone who earns a yearly salary of $60,000 pays a larger percentage of his income in taxes than the four hundred richest Americans.Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston exposes exactly how the middle class is being squeezed to create a widening wealth gap that threatens the stability of the country. By relating the compelling tales of real people across all areas of society, he reveals the truth behind: - "Middle class" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit. - How workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions. - How some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax. - How a law meant to prevent cheating by the top 2 percent of Americans no longer affects most of them, but has morphed into a stealth tax on single mothers making just $28,000. - Why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else. - How the IRS became so weak that even when it was handed complete banking records detailing massive cheating by 1,600 people, it prosecuted only 4 percent of them.Johnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of The New York Times for seven years. With Perfectly Legal, he puts the whole shocking narrative together in a way that will stir up media attention and make readers angry about the state of our country. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Just got the book in the mail I'm just happy that it finally arrived thank you

I love Heather Graham's books she goes back in time and mystery and suspense and it's really really good

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An Intense Mystery - with twist I didn't see coming....

This book is an amazing mystery that has ghost, kidnapping, murder, romance and mysteries of life. Leslie Macintyre is an anthropologist who can talk to ghost, even more so since her fiancé death. She is now working back in New York and staying in the same historical home where the explosion that killed her fiancé and three others. Leslie with the help of friends starts trying to unravel the mystery of her fiancé death...

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Full of Suspense

I recently "discovered" Graham as an author this year and I love her books and stories. This one does not disappoint!

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A Paranormal Pleasure

This is not your typical paranormal romance novel. Don't believe me? Wait until you read the refreshing, yet surprising ending. Does it have plenty of romantic elements? Of course it does. This is a Heather Graham novel after all, but I think this story would even appeal to those readers who would normally snub their noses at anything that has romance in the description. This story has everything I look for in a great novel:...

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a breathtaking romantic suspense with a strong paranormal thread

Courtesy of CK2S Kwips and Kritiques Ever since she nearly dead in an accidental explosion one year ago that took the life of her fiance Leslie MacIntyre's already apparent sixth sense has been stronger. She sees ghosts all the time, which helps her in her career as an archaeologist since they can lead her to all manner of fascinating finds. When she returns to NYC for a dig down the road from Hastings House, the site of...

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