Title: The big ripoff : how big business and big government steal your money /
Authors: Carney, Timothy P., 1978-; Novak, Robert D.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Business and politics United States; Corporations Political activity United States
Abstract: An examination of the ways mega-corporations profit through a complex web of tax breaks, regulations, and government handouts.
Contents: The Big Ripoff: The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled -- Part I. Friends in High Places -- The Parties of Big Business: Corporate America Loves both Republicans and Democrats [and] Republicans and Democrats Love Big Business -- The History of Big Business: ...Is the History of Big Government -- Part II. Corporate Welfare -- Robin Hood in Reverse: Corporate Welfare in America -- Boeing's Bank: The Export-Import Bank of the United States -- Eminent Domain for Corporate Gain: The "Public Purpose" of Big Business -- Part III. Regulate Me! -- Regulators and Robber Barons: How Government Regulation Protects the Big Guys and Rips Off the Little Guys -- The War Against Tobacco: Why Phillip Morris is Leading It -- You Get Taxed, They Get Rich: Why Big Business Loves High Taxes -- Part IV. Green: The Color of Money -- Environmentalism for Profit: How bad Environmentalism Laws Give Your Money to Big Business -- Enron: A Big-Government Scandal -- Ethanol and Archer Daniels Midland: Corporate Moonshiners on the Dole.