David Cay Johnston Coming Up On C-SPAN....

[GR]

He's the author of Perfectly Legal that shows how Bush is letting the rich loot the country.

[leftchick]

1. after he is on it is

Tony Blankley....that stuffed sausage from the mooney times...
Just have to fit a winger in there on Friday.
:puke:

[Gin]

2. David Kay Johnson was interesting. ...I may buy the book....

we knew the system benefited the rich...he agrees.

[Bozita]

3. He was on 'Fresh Air' on Wednesday -- link to listen

http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=01/07/2004

Listen to Wednesday, January 07, 2004


Listen to Journalist David Cay Johnston

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his investigative reporting in The New York Times. His new book is Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else. Johnston was hired by the Times to cover taxes and he approached it like an ongoing investigation. In his new book he writes, "I was especially surprised to find that some of the biggest tax breaks for the rich are not even in the tax code, and that the IRS was completely unaware of many widely used tax fraud schemes. But what surprised me more than anything was the realization that our tax system now levies the poor, the middle class and even the upper middle class to subsidize the rich."

[Bozita]

4. Johnston on live at noon ET on WNYC -- listening link

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/current

The Leonard Lopate Show 
Pefectly Legal
Big Rig
Friday, January 09, 2004
David Cay Johnston explains why America’s tax code is a mess. He claims that the richest people within the top 1% of the country have rigged the tax laws in their favor. Then a discussion with Arlen Schumer on the Silver Age of comic book art, from 1956 to 1970. And graphic designer Chip Kidd on Japanese comic artist Osamu Tezuka’s eight-volume work, Buddha.

David Cay Johnston
David Cay Johnston began writing about taxes for the New York Times in 1995, and he’s won two Pulitzer Prizes for his investigative reporting. His new book is Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else.