This might be a book for the sit-on-the-lounge-chair-sipping-lemonade-but-don't-mind-thinking summertime reading list.
From the promo: "The Big Ripoff pulls back the curtain to show who is strangling America's tradition of free enterprise, how and why they are doing it, and what you can do to help restore free enterprise along with your long-trampled rights as both a consumer and taxpayer. Hard-charging investigative reporter and commentator Timothy Carney will both fascinate and infuriate you with insider tales that include:
*A decade after reforming the welfare system for individuals, Congress is making the web of welfare for corporations even more impregnable than ever
*How government land grabs — 'eminent domain for corporate gain' — are unfairly dr— who are, not coincidentally, its most ardent supporters
*How the rich vote Republican, but how the very rich consistently back Democratic candidates — and why."
I'm intrigued. How about you?
The book will be available on July 11.
*How the rich vote Republican, but how the very rich consistently back Democratic candidates — and why."
This might be a 