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Tax-funded Politics (Paperback)
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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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