• Book Overview
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Praise

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Introduction

Part One: Individual Inequities
1 Social Security Inequities ($85 billion a year)
2 Tax Breaks for Homeowners ($32.1 billion a year)
3 Runaway Pensions ($7.6 billion a year)

Part Two: Big Business Breaks
4 Tax Avoidance by Transnationals ($137.2 billion a year)
5 Lower Taxes on Capital Gains ($89.8 billion a year)
6 Accelerated Depreciation ($85 billion a year)
7 Insurance Loopholes ($23.5 billion a year)
8 Business Meals and Entertainment ($8.8 billion a year)
9 Tax-Free Muni Bonds ($6.4 billion)
10 Export Subsidies (1.8 billion)

Part Three: Industry Chicanery
11 Military Waste and Fraud ($224 billion a year)
12 S&L Bailout ($32 billion a year)
13 Agribusiness Subsidies ($30.5 billion a year)
14 Media Handouts ($14.2 billion a year)
15 Nuclear Subsidies ($10 billion a year)
16 Aviation Subsidies ($5 billion a year)
17 Mining Subsidies ($4.7 billion a year)
18 Oil and Gas Tax Breaks ($1.7 billion a year)
19 Timber Subsidies ($976 million a year)
20 Synfuel Tax Credits ($600 million a year)
21 Ozone Tax Exemptions ($320 million a year)
22 A Bouquet of Miscellaneous Ripoffs ($16.4 billion a year)
23 What's Been Left Out (untold billions every year)

Appendix A Welfare for the Poor ($193 billion)
Appendix B Glossary