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One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor.

Since 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.

Pulitzer 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:
* "middle class" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit
* how workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions
* how some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax
* how 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
* why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else
* how 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

Johnston 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..
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There are many wonderful charitable foundations that help Americans achieve a better standard of life. But there are also thousands of wealthy tax-exempt foundations that work to undermine our free enterprise system, traditional culture and national sovereignty. Phil Kent strips the bark off of America's "charitable" tree to expose these super-rich elites for what they are political battering rams hiding under the banner of charity. The invisible government" of these left-wing foundations, the groups they fund and the politicians who fawn over them tend to operate under the cloak of secrecy. Foundations of Betrayal uncovers their devious agendas and tactics. Kent lifts the curtain to expose the shocking ways these foundations abuse their awesome power: Major foundations hijacked to attack capitalism; Billionaire George Soros targets U.S. as the main obstacle; Ford's agenda helping radical Muslims and even suicide bombers; Foundation-backed Greenpeace undermines U.S. troops; Huge grants for radical environmentalism, open borders..
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One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor.Since 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.Pulitzer 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:* "middle class" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit* how workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions* how some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax* how 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* why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else* how 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.
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