"tate and local governments alone spend at least $70 billion a year of taxpayer's money to subsidize factories, office buildings ... $900 per year for a family of four."
About David Cay Johnston
David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
View full profileGet a daily quote
A new thought from history's greatest minds, every morning.
More on #politics
"Late that last night, as I sat alone watching the interviews and the speeches and the what-not, she shouted to turn that thing off and come …"
— Goodman Ace
"As one former prisoner put it in speaking to his fellow citizens, “Politics is your job. It’s not only for politicians.” And we have an expr…"
— Barack Obama
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
— Samuel Johnson
"It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government."
— James Jesus Angleton
"Democracy, in this late stage of capitalism, has been replaced with a system of legalized bribery. All branches of government, including the…"
— Chris Hedges