{"product_id":"perfectly-legal-isbn-9781591840695","title":"Perfectly Legal","description":"Now updated with a new prologue!\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax  have been largely ignored by the media. But the cumulative results are remarkable: today someone who earns a yearly salary of $60,000 pays a larger percentage of his income in taxes than the four hundred richest Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston exposes exactly how the middle class is being squeezed to create a widening wealth gap that threatens the stability of the country. By relating the compelling tales of real people across all areas of society, he reveals the truth behind:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cp\u003e\"Middle class\" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cp\u003eHow workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cp\u003eHow some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cp\u003eHow a law meant to prevent cheating by the top 2 percent of Americans no longer affects most of them, but has morphed into a stealth tax on single mothers making just $28,000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cp\u003eWhy the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cp\u003eHow the IRS became so weak that even when it was handed complete banking records detailing massive cheating by 1,600 people, it prosecuted only 4 percent of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e for seven years. With \u003cb\u003ePerfectly Legal\u003c\/b\u003e, he puts the whole shocking narrative together in a way that will stir up media attention and make readers angry about the state of our country.\u003c\/p\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Taxes - They're Not for Everyone\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: A Nickel an Hour More\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The Rich Get Fabulously Richer\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Big Payday\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Plane Perks\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: When the Old Man Is Dead and Buried\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: The Stealth Tax\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: How Social Security Taxes Subsidize the Rich\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Preying on the Working Poor\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Handcuffing the Tax Police\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Mr. Rossotti's Customers\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: For Want of a Keystroke\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Mr. Kellogg's Favorite Loophole\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Mass Market Tax Evasion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Getting Off the Hook\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: Profiting Off Taxes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: Profits Trump Patriotism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: Letters to Switerzland\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: Gimme Shelter\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20: Only the Rich Deserve a Comfortable Retirement\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: Is Reform Possible?\u003cbr\u003eConclusions\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\"Truly shocking.\" —\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers should take their blood pressure pills.\" —\u003cb\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everyone who wants to understand what's happening with the tax system should read \u003cb\u003ePerfectly Legal\u003c\/b\u003e ... by David Cay Johnston, who shows how idealogues have made America safe for wealthy people who don't feel like paying taxes.\" —\u003cb\u003ePaul Krugman\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even if you suspected all along that the system favors the rich, you're going to be shocked to learn just how badly you're being screwed.\" —\u003cb\u003eGreg Palast\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003eThe Best Democracy Money Can Buy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Want to know how business execs get nearly free peraonal trips on their corporate jets? Johnston is your man.\" —\u003cb\u003eBusiness Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book that will either shame us or prod us into taking back the system.\" —\u003cb\u003eRalph Nader\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Cay Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has been called the “de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States.” His most recent books, \u003ci\u003ePerfectly Legal \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFree Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, were \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers. He was a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003efor 13 years and now writes a column for Reuters. He also teaches at the Syracuse University College of Law and the Whitman School of Management, and he was recently elected to be board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. He lives in Rochester, New York. 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