{"product_id":"perfectly-legal-the-covert-campaign-to-rig-our-tax-system-to-benefit-the-super-rich-and-cheat-everybody-else","title":"Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow updated with a new prologue!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nPulitzer 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e•\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Middle class\" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit.\u003cbr\u003e\n•\u003cbr\u003e\nHow workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions.\u003cbr\u003e\n•\u003cbr\u003e\nHow some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax.\u003cbr\u003e\n•\u003cbr\u003e\nHow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n•\u003cbr\u003e\nWhy the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else.\u003cbr\u003e\n•\u003cbr\u003e\nHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohnston 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., ISBN13: 9781591840695 ISBN10: 1591840694 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46111738232995,"sku":"UBD.6.6 F_STR_H0000F7Z","price":15.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/812c8-lFYZL.jpg?v=1754638242","url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/products\/perfectly-legal-the-covert-campaign-to-rig-our-tax-system-to-benefit-the-super-rich-and-cheat-everybody-else","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}