Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America by Axelrod, Alan

Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780789212832)

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Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America by Axelrod, Alan

Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America

$27.50
Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America by Axelrod, Alan

Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America

$27.50
Format: Hardcover
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Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist . . . Each has a laundry list for America on which the slow-motion cataclysm of unsustainable national debt is but a lonely bullet point among dozens of others. Full Faith and Credit zooms in on that point, liberates it from partisan programs and political orientations, expands it, explores it, and explains it.

The book examines key dimensions of our national life--from a military-industrial complex more menacing than even Eisenhower could have imagined to a Tower of Babel tax code that covertly translates taxes into secret subsidies. With the aim of converting bystanders into informed advocates of change, Full Faith and Credit is rich with eye-opening data, surprising case studies, and you-can't-make-this-stuff-up examples:

- For every official the United States public has elected, its government supports 5000 unelected employees.

- $1 billion is the cost to destroy $16 billion in ammunition unneeded by the U.S. military.

- $20,973,890,000 is the total taxpayer cost to the Treasury of gambling losses deducted by millionaires.

With easy-to-follow graphs and charts, as well as 20 uproarious full-color editorial cartoons drawn from the prior work of Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Michael Ramirez, Full Faith and Credit locates the tipping point of the $19.4 trillion (and counting) national debt crisis and offers ideas on how to fix it.


Author: Alan Axelrod
ISBN-10: 0789212838
ISBN-13: 9780789212832
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2016
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2016
By Alan Axelrod
By Alan Axelrod
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Alan Axelrod, Ph.D., is the author of more than 140 nonfiction books, including Patton on Leadership, Elizabeth I CEO and all five editions of The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History. He has been a creative consultant for the CW, A&E Network, Discovery Channel, Military Channel, American Heroes Channel, and the PBS series "American Experience," and a keynote speaker at good-government and business conferences around the world.

The editorial cartoons are drawn from the work of Michael Ramirez. Ramirez is a senior editor and the editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily, a Lincoln Fellow, and an honorary member of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society. He has won almost every journalism award, including two Pulitzer Prizes, the prestigious UCI Medal from the University of California at Irvine, the 2005 National Journalism Award, the 2008 Fischetti Award and the H.L. Mencken Award. He is also the author of the new book Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare.

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