America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? is a disturbing, eye-opening look at a tax system gone out of control. Originally 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. Book jacket.

Donald L. Barlett is a Pulitzer-prize investigative reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has written about taxation for more than twenty-five years.

Where Did All the Money Go?	p. 13
The Two-Tax, Two-Class Society	p. 13
Squeezing the Middle Class	p. 21
Subsidizing the Haves	p. 26
The IRA Flimflam	p. 30
Tax-Free Millionaires	p. 39
Business as Usual in Washington	p. 49
The Tax War You Lost	p. 58
The Great Rate War	p. 58
Tax Reform for the Wealthy	p. 64
Birth of Withholding	p. 68
Capitol Hill Magic Show	p. 73
Helping the Rich by Helping the Poor	p. 82
Class Warfare	p. 88
Why You Pay More	p. 95
Washington Trickery	p. 95
Raising Taxes on Wage Earners	p. 101
Robin Hood in Reverse	p. 110
Falling Behind	p. 117
The Philadelphia Nun's Write-off	p. 123
No Deduction for Doing Good	p. 131
Why Corporations Pay Less	p. 137
The Potato Chip Deduction	p. 137
Tax-Free Cruising	p. 141
Fat City	p. 148
Tax-Free Trees	p. 155
The Business of Beverly Hills	p. 168
Foreign Tax Breaks	p. 174
Low Rates--But Not for You	p. 174
Foreign Flight	p. 178
Deal in the Desert	p. 183
Transferring Taxes to You	p. 189
Enforcing the Tax Law by Bicycle	p. 195
Now You See It, Now You Don't	p. 201
Cutting Taxes, Cutting Jobs	p. 205
The Revolving Door	p. 213
The Right Connections	p. 213
Graduate School for Lobbyists	p. 221
Loophole Carvers	p. 229
The Eternal Tax Break	p. 234
America's Most Unproductive Industry	p. 248
Perpetual Motion Machine	p. 248
Congress's Little Secret	p. 256
A Court for the Oppressed?	p. 262
The Lawyers' and Accountants' Relief Act	p. 267
Taking Care of Friends	p. 278
The Unfairest Taxes of All	p. 282
The Unequal Burden	p. 282
Raising Taxes--Behind Your Back	p. 290
The War Between the States	p. 299
Tax Subsidy for a Plant Closer	p. 306
Bailing Out a Dealmaker	p. 312
Legalized Inequities	p. 318
Can It Be Fixed?	p. 329
In Congress's Best Interest	p. 329
A Modest Proposal	p. 338
Notes on Sources	p. 345
Index	p. 363
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