The Big Handout: How Us Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live in and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills

About this book

Just reading the word OCysubsidiesOCO may cause many peopleOCOs eyes to glaze over. We donOCOt 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 itOCOs a story about just one thing OCo 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 subsidised commodities in the United States. In this eye-opening book, "New York Times"OCobestselling author Thomas Kostigen explores government policies that cost US taxpayers $200 billion per year, or over $1,500 per household. In some cases, they pay more for subsidised goods than theyOCOd pay in a free market OCo and, in the most shocking abuses of the subsidy system, they pay for goods that arenOCOt even produced."The Big Handout" exposes how artificial pricing hurts US citizens and people worldwide, from our waistlines and pocketbooks to our health. By revealing just how toxic AmericaOCOs subsidy system has become for everyone OCo including the way it distorts the prices of goods produced by genuinely free-trade countries such as Australia OCo "The Big Handout" is a wake-up call for farmers, consumers, and politicians."