{"product_id":"9780789260680","title":"Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America","description":"What is the national debt? Who loses from it? Who profits from it? Why is it a greater threat to America than international terrorism? In direct, non-partisan language, this book follows the money and finds the answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist . . . Each has a laundry list for America on which the slow-motion cataclysm of unsustainable national debt is but a lonely bullet point among dozens of others. \u003ci\u003eFull Faith and Credit\u003c\/i\u003e zooms in on that point, liberates it from partisan programs and political orientations, expands it, explores it, and explains it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book examines key dimensions of our national life—from a military-industrial complex more menacing than even Eisenhower could have imagined to a Tower of Babel tax code that covertly translates taxes into secret subsidies. With the aim of converting bystanders into informed advocates of change, \u003ci\u003eFull Faith and Credit\u003c\/i\u003e is rich with eye-opening data, surprising case studies, and you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up examples:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• For every official the United States public has elected, its government supports 5000 unelected employees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• $1 billion is the cost to destroy $16 billion in ammunition unneeded by the U.S. military.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• $20,973,890,000 is the total taxpayer cost to the Treasury of gambling losses deducted by millionaires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith easy-to-follow graphs and charts, as well as 20 uproarious full-color editorial cartoons drawn from the prior work of Pulitzer Prize–winning artist Michael Ramirez, \u003ci\u003eFull Faith and Credit\u003c\/i\u003e locates the tipping point of the $19.4 trillion (and counting) national debt crisis and offers ideas on how to fix it.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Abbeville Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127602757872,"sku":"9780789260680","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780789260680_p0.jpg?v=1763664850","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780789260680","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}