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    The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America
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    The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America
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    The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America
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    The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America

    By Joshua Holland

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    AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economy

    Taxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt their members. Government regulation destroys jobs. These are just a few of the biggest lies in the web of misinformation spun by conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce. Holland's book dissects each malicious fiction to show how the Right is just plain wrong on the economy—wrong on jobs, wrong on the deficit, wrong on taxes, wrong on trade.

    • Takes down old and new conservative myths about the economy, including healthcare, stimulus, progressive taxes, Wall Street regulation, and more
    • Filled with recent quotes from conservative politicians and pundits, from the misleading to the laughable to the totally outrageous
    • Tackles specific aspects of the Republicans' economic agenda, including their 2010 alternatives to Obama's budget
    • Deftly written and rigorously documented by Alternet senior writer/editor Joshua Holland

    With the economy set to be the driving issue before and after the 2010 midterm elections, The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy sets the record straight on every part of the conservatives' economic agenda.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateSep 23, 2010
    ISBN9780470912829
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      A good fact-rich guide to what's actually going on in the US economy, as opposed to the theory-driven narrative that's spun by many on the "conservative" side of the political spectrum. Those "conservatives" and their economic ideology, Holland shows, have done immense damage to our economy over the past thirty years. A good read for liberals looking for ammunition to back up their arguments.