…How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off You:

A new book on corruption and rent seeking by my colleague at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Iain Murray, launches today.

[Update a few minutes later]

An explanatory editorial from the author.

…my new book, Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You, doesn’t just talk about the excesses of government pay. It looks at how the modern American state has rigged the rules to support itself at our expense. The Internal Revenue Service is allowed to ignore the Constitution. Regulations cost our economy more than the federal deficit without anyone batting an eyelid, as they turn ordinary Americans into criminals. Worst of all, our education system has ceased to educate our children and now only works to benefit the education establishment—unionized teachers and administrators.

And teach them to allow the statists to continue to rob us blind.