The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money

By Timothy P. Carney

John Wiley & Sons Inc., July 2006, $24.95

Investigative reporter Timothy Carney weaves together a series of examples of how lobbying by big corporations goes hand-in-hand with big government. Carney's opening declares, "This is a book about how the regular guy gets ripped off," and exposes how government regulation of big businesses actually protects them while hurting smaller businesses and higher taxes on the rich facilitate transferring of money to the big corporations, citing examples of Phillip Morris lobbying for federal regulation of tobacco, counter-intuitively, to their own advantage.

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