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Unwelcome Guests - Free Lunch

Date Updated:	April 10, 2008
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Description: David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist for The New York Times who has focussed on the subject of taxation. He most recently published book Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, is an expose of hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and what has been called corporate socialism. It follows his previous Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, which was a a New York Times bestseller.

Johnston received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed
loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms." Priorto joining the New York Times in 1995, he's worked for various major daily papers around the country and studied economics at the university of Chicago and elsewhere. He now lives in Rochester, New York area where he spoke on Februrary 16th at an
event sponsored by the Rochester Labor Lyceum, which has presented public talks and debates on topics of labor and social justice since 1897.

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