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Title: A Most Misleading Book
Review: This is a most misleading book. Contrary to what Easterbrook says, the economic state of middle America is not so rosy. Jobs are this country's leading export. Wages relative to inflation are stagnant at best for most folks who are not in white collar occupations. Even for white collar workers, the economic climate is not so good.Essentially, Easterbrook's book is a prosecutor's brief on the side of raising taxes. He claims that even though most Americans are now better off than they ever have been, they are really miserable. Easterbrook claims that what's needed is a big tax increase to fund the programs necessary to "defeat global despair."What Easterbrook has done, in essence, is to bend the facts to fit his predetermined agenda of advocating a big tax increase to fuel a big spending program. More and more big government is what he's really interested in, not in healing the wounds of the middle class.
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