Free lunch : how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government expense (and stick you with the bill)
How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? This book answers this great economic question, revealing how today's government policies and spending benefit the wealthy. Johnston shows how, under the guise of deregulation, a whole new set of regulations quietly went into effect--thwarting competition, depressing wages, and rewarding misconduct. Revelations include: how we ended up with the most expensive yet inefficient health-care system in the world; how homeowners' title insurance became a costly, deceitful, yet almost invisible oligopoly; how our government gives hidden subsidies for posh golf courses; how baseball team owners will collect more than $1.3 billion in public funds. In these instances and more, Johnston shows how the lobbyists and lawyers representing the most powerful 0.1 percent of Americans manipulated our government at the expense of the other 99.9 percent.--From publisher description
1 online resource (viii, 323 pages)
9781591841913, 1591841917
1058080057
Chapter 1. Without Even Asking
Chapter 2. Mr. Reagan's Question
Chapter 3. Trust and Consequences
Chapter 4. Chinese Magnetism
Chapter 5. Seizing the Commons
Chapter 6. Pride and Profits
Chapter 7. Your Land is My Land
Chapter 8. Bounty Hunters
Chapter 9. Goin' Fishin'
Chapter 10. Just Say No
Chapter 11. Beauty and the Bounty
Chapter 12. False Alarm
Chapter 13. Home Robbery
Chapter 14. Indentured Scholars
Chapter 15. Selling the Furniture
Chapter 16. Suffer the Little Children
Chapter 17. Trojan Horse
Chapter 18. Sightless Sheriffs
Chapter 19. Paying Twice
Chapter 20. Rising Snow
Chapter 21. Unhealthy Economics
Chapter 22. Less for More
Chapter 23. Hooked on Drugs
Chapter 24. "I'm Being Trapped"
Chapter 25. None Dare Call It Stealing
Chapter 26. Not Since Hoover
Conclusion: What to Do?
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