Acknowledgments.

1 The Big Ripoff:The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled.

PART I FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES.

2 The Parties of Big Business: Corporate America Loves Republicans and Democrats—Republicans and Democrats Love Big Business.

3 The History of Big Business: . . . Is the History of Big Government.

PART II CORPORATE WELFARE.

4 Robin Hood in Reverse: Corporate Welfare in America.

5 Boeing’s Bank:The Export-Import Bank of the United States.

6 Eminent Domain for Corporate Gain:The “Public Purpose” of Big Business.

PART III REGULATE ME!

7 Regulators and Robber Barons:How Government Regulation Protects the Big Guys and Rips Off the Little Guys.

8 The War against Tobacco:Why Phillip Morris is Leading It.

9 You Get Taxed,They Get Rich:Why Big Business Loves High Taxes.

PART IV GREEN:THE COLOR OF MONEY.

10 Environmentalism for Profit: How Bad Environmentalist Laws Give Your Money to Big Business.

11 Enron:A Big-Government Scandal.

12 Ethanol and Archer Daniels Midland: Corporate Moonshiners on the Dole.

Notes.

Index.