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How American Politics Works Today Tax Eaters vs. Taxpayers
Ivan R. Dee
June 2005
157 pages
ISBN: 1566636442
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A new dynamic has sprung up in American politics today: the
contest between those who benefit from an ever-expanding
public sector and those who pay for this bigger government—
in other words, it’s the tax eaters vs. the taxpayers. Steven Malanga shows how coalitions of public employee
unions, workers at government-funded social service
organizations, and recipients of government benefits have
seized control of the politics of the big cities that make
up the heart of Blue America. In New York City, this
coalition has helped roll back some of the reforms of the
Giuliani years. In California cities and towns, it is
thwarting the expansion of private businesses. In nearly
100 municipalities, it has imposed higher costs on tens of
thousands of firms by passing "living-wage" laws. Whereas
the New Left of the 1960s believed—idealistically, if
somewhat naively—that government could solve the biggest
problems of our times, this New New Left is much more
narrowly and cynically focused on expanding government
programs to increase its own power, pay, and perks. And, as
Malanga shows, the New New Left is emerging as the most
powerful element of the national Democratic Party coalition.
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