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. Full Faith and Credit zooms in on that point, liberates it
from partisan programs and political orientations, expands it, explores
it, and explains it.
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:
- For every official the United States public has elected, its
government supports 5000 unelected employees.
- $1 billion is the cost to destroy $16 billion in ammunition unneeded
by the U.S. military.
- $20,973,890,000 is the total taxpayer cost to the Treasury of
gambling losses deducted by millionaires.
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, Full Faith and Credit locates
the tipping point of the $19.4 trillion (and counting) national debt
crisis and offers ideas on how to fix it.
