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Ballooning government?Millionaire welfare queens?Tort lawyers run amok?A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars?John Stossel says, "Give me a break." When he hit the airwaves thirty years ago, Stossel helped create a whole new category of news, dedicated to protecting and informing consumers. As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers.But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on: While the networks screamed about the dangers of exploding BIC lighters and coffeepots, worse risks were ignored. And while reporters were teaming up with lawyers and legislators to stick it to big business, they seldom reported the ways the free market made life better.In Give Me a Break, Stossel explains how ambitious bureaucrats, intellectually lazy reporters, and greedy lawyers make your life worse even as they claim to protect your interests. Taking on such sacred cows as the FDA, the War on Drugs, and scaremongering environmental activists -- and backing up his trademark irreverence with careful reasoning and research -- he shows how the problems that government t

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Author

Stossel, John

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060529154

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14