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- catalog abstract ""Allen W. Smith offers a brief history of Social Security, from its inception in 1935 to the present, including the enactment of the crucial 1983 Social Security tax increase. Then step by outrageous step, he details how the governments's promise to the American people - a pledge to never spend the Social Security Trust Fund - has been broken time and again. Most recently, Smith shows how George W. Bush has pillaged the Trust Fund like no president before him and used the Social Security taxes paid by working Americans to fund a series of huge tax cuts benefiting the wealthiest among us."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13067979.
- catalog coverage "United States Economic policy 1981-1993.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Allen W. Smith offers a brief history of Social Security, from its inception in 1935 to the present, including the enactment of the crucial 1983 Social Security tax increase. Then step by outrageous step, he details how the governments's promise to the American people - a pledge to never spend the Social Security Trust Fund - has been broken time and again. Most recently, Smith shows how George W. Bush has pillaged the Trust Fund like no president before him and used the Social Security taxes paid by working Americans to fund a series of huge tax cuts benefiting the wealthiest among us."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "An overview -- The Social Security Trust Fund -- Economic illiteracy and malpractice -- Economic malpractice during the Reagan-Bush years -- Clinton and a return to traditional economic policies -- George W. Bush -- Tax cuts and job creation -- The hidden agenda -- Wealth, privilege, and power -- The impending crises -- Pathway to economic disaster -- Bush's contract with America -- Epilogue: The case for universal economic education.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 235 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0786712813".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Carroll & Graf,".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic policy 1981-1993.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "368.4/3/00973 22".
- catalog subject "HD7125 .S565 2004".
- catalog subject "Social security United States Finance.".
- catalog subject "United States. Social Security Administration.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An overview -- The Social Security Trust Fund -- Economic illiteracy and malpractice -- Economic malpractice during the Reagan-Bush years -- Clinton and a return to traditional economic policies -- George W. Bush -- Tax cuts and job creation -- The hidden agenda -- Wealth, privilege, and power -- The impending crises -- Pathway to economic disaster -- Bush's contract with America -- Epilogue: The case for universal economic education.".
- catalog title "The looting of social security : how the government is draining America's retirement account / Allen W. Smith.".
- catalog type "text".