Shakedown
Subtitle: the continuing conspiracy against the American taxpayer
By: Steven Malanga
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781566638753
Subjects: Government spending policy; Taxation; Government employee unions; Social policy; Community activists
Description: The author chronicles the rise of what he calls the New New Left, beginning with President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s, and lays the blame for the economic meltdown of the early twenty-first century to the bigger government and more public spending agenda of the political powerhouse.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the conspiracy against taxpayers; title: The bill is coming due; title: California's road to serfdom; title: The mob that whacked Jersey; title: We don't need another war on poverty; title: America's worst urban program; title: The movement to undermine welfare reforms; title: The religious left, reborn; title: The advocates and Washington's housing disorders; title: A culture of entitlement everywhere.