Free Lunch
How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston goes into real detail about how the wealthy are ripping us all off. He examines a host of issues and connects dots. David Cay Johnson - image from Wisconsin Public Radio Johnston does his best to raise your blood to a boiling point, going into real detail abou......more

I knew it would make me mad to read this book. And I was right. But, I suppose that's a good thing. Reading this book is designed to make you mad, to want to do something about the 'pigs at the trough' as Ariana Huffington calls them; no, not the welfare mothers with their $241/mo checks. Heck, that's......more

This is a great book, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you want a healthy dose of cynicism added to your literary diet. Every single one of the examples Johnston discusses makes you realize that the "haves" in our society often do not get ahead by being better capitalists, but rather by being mast......more

Johnston packs a lot of eye-opening data into this book, taking on major league sports, eminent domain abuse, health care, the laws touted to taxpayers as “deregulation”, and more. He calls upon both Adam Smith and the Bible to damn both Democrats and Republicans that have forsaken their duty to the......more

I learned how riled up a book can make me. When I saw how special interests and deregulation have increasingly pulled money away from the taxpayers with the theme of "letting the markets work" I was appalled. The book reminded me of "Freakonomics" as it paired unlikely cause/effect relationships, e.......more