Jennifer Taub
Auteur de Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime
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The list above are just a few of the latest examples of corporate and individual greed that have largely gone unpunished. Companies may get fined and they may receive a slap on their wrists but few executives go to jail.
Taub provides an overview of various scandals and its effect on consumers, taxpayers and the public in general. She also offers some suggestions on how to better enforce regulations and laws. However given the greed of American businesses, the indifference of the American public and the soullessness of the Republican Party, I don’t think much will happen.
Well written book---makes a number of great points but she’s preaching to the choir to this reader..
My notes from the book below:
Just day after Valentine's Day in 2020, President Donald Trump granted clemency to a slew of affluent felons. Their offenses? Bribery, investment fraud, tax evasion, Medicare fraud, public corruption, computer hacking, and extortion cover-up, money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the federal government, obstruction of justice, mail fraud, wire fraud.
White-collar crime in America , such as fraud and embezzlement , cost victims and estimated three hundred billion to eight hundred billion dollars per year yet street level property crimes including burglary , larceny and theft cost us far less – – around sixteen billion dollars annually , according to the FBI .
In 2018, the Wells Fargo Board of Directors authorized paying shareholders billions of dollars in dividends and stock buybacks, but the bank still announced layoffs of more than 26,000 employees.
When powerful people plunder with impunity, they grow even wealthier. And they can use this wealth to change the laws and their enforcement so that they favored those at the top like themselves. This is not a theory. It's reality.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: "From 1999 to 2017, almost 218,000 people died in the United States from overdoses related to prescription opioids. That was more than half of the nearly 400,000 opioid deaths during that time period.”
The IRS was busy trying to survive budget cut after budget cut. Its 2019 budget was around $2 billion lower than in 2009. Along came layoffs, with 30,000 fewer employees at the IRS by 2020. Fewer auditors meant fewer audits. The agency lost out on collecting at least $18 billion per year.
The 2017 tax giveaway was expected to cost around $1.9 trillion by 2027, according to the Congressional budget office. Imagine if we had directed that money to where the greatest need is, not the greatest greed. We could have provided affordable childcare and pre-K to all families for a decade. But that's not all. Child poverty would have been eliminated during that period of time. After doing both, we could've raise teachers wages in a low income area schools by $10,000, doubled the amount of government funding for climate science, invested $100 billion fighting the opioid epidemic, and directed $60 billion towards community colleges.
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