اعتبار و اعتماد کامل: بدهی ملی، مالیات‌ها، هزینه‌ها و ورشکستگی آمریکا

What is the national debt? Who loses from it? Who profits from it? Why is it a greater threat to America than international terrorism? In direct, non-partisan language, this book follows the money and finds the answers. 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.