{"product_id":"full-faith-and-credit-alan-axelrod-9780789212832","title":"Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eFull Faith and Credit\u003c\/em\u003e zooms in on that point, liberates it from partisan programs and political orientations, expands it, explores it, and explains it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- For every official the United States public has elected, its government supports 5000 unelected employees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- $1 billion is the cost to destroy $16 billion in ammunition unneeded by the U.S. military.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- $20,973,890,000 is the total taxpayer cost to the Treasury of gambling losses deducted by millionaires.\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eFull Faith and Credit\u003c\/em\u003e locates the tipping point of the $19.4 trillion (and counting) national debt crisis and offers ideas on how to fix it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Axelrod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0789212838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780789212832\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Abbeville Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/19\/2016","brand":"Alan Axelrod","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611005174015,"sku":"9780789212832","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a93f455-0934-4c1a-aec0-49310f45cecd.jpg?v=1764511094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/full-faith-and-credit-alan-axelrod-9780789212832","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}