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Big Handout : How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live in and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills by Thomas M. Kostigen (2011, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPotter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale

ISBN-101609611136

ISBN-139781609611132

eBay Product ID (ePID)102861442

Product Key Features

Book TitleBig Handout : How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live in and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicPublic Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Finance / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Public Policy / Economic Policy, Commercial Policy, Government & Business

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics

AuthorThomas M. Kostigen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-014674

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A lively polemic...Kostigen provides a forceful statement of the need to reorganize food and other primary goods production in the U.S." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Big Handout is a clear-eyed look at how a maze of government programs, greedy agribusiness lobbyists, and craven politicians have broken our agriculture system and how Americans can fight back for a more equitable, healthier food and farm policy." -- Ken Cook, President and Cofounder, Environmental Working Group, "A lively polemic...Kostigen provides a forceful statement of the need to reorganize food and other primary goods production in the U.S." - Kirkus Reviews " The Big Handout is a clear-eyed look at how a maze of government programs, greedy agribusiness lobbyists, and craven politicians have broken our agriculture system and how Americans can fight back for a more equitable, healthier food and farm policy." -Ken Cook, President and Cofounder, Environmental Working Group, The Big Handout is a clear-eyed look at how a maze of government programs, greedy agribusiness lobbyists, and craven politicians have broken our agriculture system and how Americans can fight back for a more equitable, healthier food and farm policy., A lively polemic...Kostigen provides a forceful statement of the need to reorganize food and other primary goods production in the U.S.

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Dewey Decimal338.1/873

SynopsisJust reading the word subsidies may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly, so we tune out. But it turns out that this complicated-sounding issue has an enormous impact on all of us. The Big Handout is about bad fiscal, environmental, agricultural, water, energy, health, and foreign policies. And it's a story about just one thing--subsidies. A subsidy is a grant by the government to a private business that is deemed advantageous to the public. Cotton, wheat, corn, soy, and oil are the most subsidized commodities in the United States. In this eye-opening book, New York Times best-selling author Thomas Kostigen explores government policies that cost taxpayers $200 billion per year, over $1,500 per household. In some cases we pay more for subsidized goods than we'd pay in a free market--and, in the most shocking abuses of the subsidy system, we pay for goods that aren't even produced. The Big Handout exposes how artificial pricing hurts us and people worldwide, from our waistlines and pocketbooks to our health. By revealing just how toxic America's subsidy system has become, for everyone, The Big Handout is a wake-up call that empowers readers to effect change., Just reading the word "subsidies" may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly, so we tune out. But it turns out that this complicated-sounding issue has an enormous impact on all of us. The Big Handout is about bad fiscal, environmental, agricultural, water, energy, health, and foreign policies. And it's a story about just one thing--subsidies. A subsidy is a grant by the government to a private business that is deemed advantageous to the public. Cotton, wheat, corn, soy, and oil are the most subsidized commodities in the United States. In this eye-opening book, New York Times best-selling author Thomas Kostigen explores government policies that cost taxpayers $200 billion per year, over $1,500 per household. In some cases we pay more for subsidized goods than we'd pay in a free market--and, in the most shocking abuses of the subsidy system, we pay for goods that aren't even produced. The Big Handout exposes how artificial pricing hurts us and people worldwide, from our waistlines and pocketbooks to our health. By revealing just how toxic America's subsidy system has become, for everyone, The Big Handout is a wake-up call that empowers readers to effect change.

LC Classification NumberHC110.S9K67 2011