The past two decades have seen the growth of well-coordinated
networks of political activists who have managed to obtain hundreds
of millions of taxpayers' dollars for political lobbying. Although
federal regulations prohibit such activities, loopholes in the law
allow these monies to be masked as private resources. State and
federal taxpayers, monies fund the lobbying efforts of private
advocacy groups on both the political left and the right.
In Tax-Funded Politics, James Bennett argues that governmental
agencies, rather than combating theses abuses, aid and abet them in
order to increase their own size and scope. Drawing on a broad
range of examples, Bennett shows how the ideals of the nation's
Founding Fathers have been subverted by molding and manipulating
the will of the people through government-orchestrated propaganda.
Government agencies, far from being indifferent to
self-aggrandizement and the consolidation of wealth and power, are
concerned with their own self-interest, whether it is enhancing
their budget or supporting a particular political agenda. Likewise,
nonprofit entities claim to operate solely in the "public interest"
but also engage in political advocacy and lobbying activities. But
when charities do the lobbying, blatant self-interest is wrapped in
the halo of the "public interest."
Tax-Funded Politics exposes dozens of mutually beneficial
arrangements between government and charities involving hundreds of
millions of dollars. It then explores their implications. Groups
that receive government funds are loath to criticize failed
government programs and are advocates for the expansion of the
agencies that provide their support. Even charities learn not to
bite the hand that feeds them. Although the vast majority of the
funds are directed to nonprofit groups on the left of the political
spectrum, so-called conservative organizations have also sought and
received taxpayers' funds, despite promise to get government off
our back and out of our pockets.
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