The 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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609611136
• ISBN13: 9781609611132
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"