David Cay Johnston - Are Government Subsidies Unfair?

Complete Video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/14/David_Cay_Johnston_Talks_About_Free_Lunch

Author David Cay Johnston discusses the history of government subsidies for companies and corporations in the United States.

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Since 1995 when David Cay Johnston turned his investigative reporting skills to explore the murky waters of tax law, Some tax policy officials now consider him, as one tax law professor put it, "the de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States."

Johnston will detail how a strong and growing economy lends itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans. As tax season draws to a close, come find out who is getting a free lunch and who is picking up the bill - The Commonwealth Club of California

David Cay Johnston was an investigative journalist for The New York Times now focusing on the subject of taxation. He accepted a buyout offer from the Times in April 2008 and is now an independent reporter.

He most recently published Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, about hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and corporate socialism. It follows Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, a New York Times bestseller. Johnston received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms." He also won the Book of the Year award from Investigative Reporters & Editors.

Robert Saldich is the Chair of the Board of Governors at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA.

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@CrossoverManiac but they will not learn about homosexuality and sodomy?

[1217jesss]

Vote for Ron Paul!!!!

[CrossoverManiac]

@dontliethetruth Homeschoolers are some of the most well-educated students in the US.

[dontliethetruth]

@CrossoverManiac then wait until you get homeschooling countrywide.

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watched 3 of this guys videos. Even more reason for FairTax... Do you recall the 2005 tax rebate on Hummer SUV.s...

[brcmasters]

Another half-truther trying to project good out of something he himself has demonized. I see a pundit job in the making, of which we will probably pay for under the guise of a charity organization. Do not give money to national charities, they are all a scam.

[CrossoverManiac]

I don't know what this retarded mongoloid is blabbering about. Government-run schools have already produced a generation of morons.

[ourearthhome]

Good example not fully stated of the general principle that government services increase land values. The local executive airport and the subsidies of corp. jets results in this case in the increase of land value not only of the land under the Libertarian's golf course but land in the whole community. We could choose to assess against this increase of land value to pay for the airport and reimburse the subsidy but America has chosen to enrich its landowners at the expense of everyone else.