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August 06, 2012 09:36 AM UTC
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I’m interested in the book you’ve suggested and they actually have it at the library! As for suggestions, I’m looking forward to getting a copy of the new Bartlett & Steele book that covers the wrecking of the economy over the long run, not just the latest Wall St. hijinks.
Because of your mention, I visited their website. They have a few interesting titles.
This book, America: Who Really Pays Taxes?
Looks interesting. From the summary they appear to be saying the middle class pay all the taxes therefore be careful what you ask for. ( Something the Austrians have been saying all along.)
http://www.barlettandsteele.co…
America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?
If you pay taxes, you need this book…
America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? is a disturbing, eye-opening look at a tax system out of control. Once designed to spread the cost of government fairly, our tax code has turned into a gold mine of loopholes and giveaways manipulated by the influential and wealthy for their own benefit.
If you feel as if the tax laws are rigged against the average taxpayer, you’re right:
•Middle-income taxpayers pick up a growing share of the nation’s tax bill, while our most profitable corporations pay little or nothing.
•Your tax status is affected more by how many lawyers and lobbyists you can afford than by your resources or needs.
•Our best-known and most successful companies pay more taxes to foreign governments than to our own.
•Cities and states start bidding wars to attract business through tax breaks – taxes made up for by the American taxpayer.
In America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? Barlett and Steele offer a graphic expose of what’s wrong with our tax system, how it got that way, and how to fix it.
I’ve read it, though it’s been awhile. I suppose if you try to get it to back up the Austrian view you can do it, but that’s not the point. Bartlett & Steele expose corruption, plain and simple. It’s not about party or ideology, it’s about good government. Of course, from my viewpoint, the party of Reagan doesn’t think good government exists, that it is an oxymoron. Besides being dismissive of public employees, that’s an attitude very troubling for the future of the nation. But the book is worth the read. I don’t remember the solutions part as being doable, as in, I don’t see a political compromise available to follow their suggestions, though they are good ones.
Is the definitive guide to the tax code.
It works better as reference material than as a book to just read–it’s too detailed and informative to try and read straight through and retain.
Carry Me Home – an amazing history of Birmingham’s place in the Civil Rights struggle. All of the people involved and how/why it became the central point for the struggle. Very well written and so compelling that you can’t put it down.
A Thousand Will Fall – written by a volunteer in the French army in WWII about both the initial fighting (which was mostly retreating), in the POW camp, and then escaping. Amazing picture of how the French army was defeated not so much by the Germans as by their own commanding officers.