敲诈勒索
Extortion
Peter Schweizer · 初版 2013 年
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“传统观念认为，华盛顿之所以运转失灵，是因为外部特殊利益集团贿赂了政客。事实恰恰相反：政客们发展出了一套强硬的立法手段，专门用来敲诈富裕行业和捐赠者，迫使他们交出巨额捐款……在此之前，华盛顿的敲诈勾当一直未被曝光。但多亏了 Peter Schweizer 与 Government Accountability Institute 调查研究团队的非凡努力，我们现在得以知晓这些敲诈手段以及从中牟利的幕后黑手。”——护封。本书论述了政客
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值得追问一句，“谁的腐败”？我强烈推荐《敲诈：政客如何榨取你的钱财、收买选票并中饱私囊》（Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets，链接：http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po...），这本书结合了我长期观察到的许多现象…
It's worth asking, "who's corruption"? I highly recommend the book "Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets" ( http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po...), which along with many things I've observed for a long time…
这本书非常详细地介绍了我们的税法以及频繁的修法举动（或修法威胁）是如何沦为敲诈勒索的精密工具的，书名就是《敲诈：政客如何榨取你的钱财、收买选票并中饱私囊》http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po... 还有不少其他内容。你知不知道那些国会议员（Congresscritter）…
This book goes into quite some detail about how our tax code and it's frequent changes, or threats to do so, are a finely tuned instrument of Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po... Quite a bit more, as well. Did you know that a Congresscritter…
…搞垮企业。大量的“政治僵局”纯粹就是为了向各个公司和行业敲竹杠：抛出利好或利空提案，收取政治献金来决定是继续阻止坏政策还是推进好政策。《敲诈：政客如何榨取你的钱财、收买选票并中饱私囊》（http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343）在这个主题上是一本极好的书，尽管我一直在关注相关议题，它还是让我学到了不少之前不知道的事…
…corporations down. A whole lot of "gridlock" is merely milking proposals that'll help or hurt various companies and sectors, and collecting contributions to continue preventing the bad or pushing for the good. Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets is (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343) a really good book on the subject, taught me things I didn't know despite watching…
…http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/... 在我们现有的统治阶级垮台之前，根本不可能有什么真正的改善；要想看清当下的运作内幕，可以读读这本佳作《敲诈：政客如何榨取你的钱财、收买选票并中饱私囊》http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343，或者正如安·兰德在《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》里写的那样：难道你真以为我们希望那些…
…http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/... Improvements are just not going to happen prior to the downfall of our current ruling class; a window into how this currently works is the excellent Extortion, How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343, or as Ayn Rand put it in Atlas Shrugged: Did you really think that we want those…
关于这个主题，Peter Schweizer 的《敲诈：政客如何榨取你的钱财、收买选票并中饱私囊》是一本极佳的专著，详见 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343/ 而且碰巧他的新书从家族角度切入：《秘密帝国》（Secret Empires:…
A very good book length treatment of this can be found in Peter Schweizer's Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343/ And it just so happens that his latest book covers the family angle: Secret Empires:…
…算是“规模太小，不值一敲”；Dodd-Frank 法案把“大而不倒”的机构概念固定下来是有非常充分的理由的。我只在 http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po... 里读过关于那个法案的部分资料，但我敢打赌等我看到细节时，这肯定就是原因之一。把人送进监狱只是野心勃勃的地方检察官（DA）和总检察长（Attorney General）想做的事；敲企业竹杠才是捞大钱的地方…
…sort of "too small to extort"; there are some very good reasons Dodd-Frank enshrined the "too big to fail" institution concept. I've only read some of the material on that bill in http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po... but I bet when I get to the details that's part of the reasons. Jailing is only something ambitious DAs and Attorney Generals want to do; milking firms is where the money…