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	"Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		David Cay Johnston, the New York Times' chief correspondent in the tax world, is fascinated and reviled by the people who live their lives in the thicket of regulations outlined in these 55,000 pages.
		Johnston's chief narrative device is the list; though he embellishes his prose with a smattering of what newspaper reporters might dismissively call "color," his chapters tell no coherent story, and are merely enumerations of the sneaky tax tricks rich people try to pull.
		Johnston's prose is laden with statistics, and though some of those stats are astonishing (for example, the richest 13,000 households in the country own about 5.1 percent of the nation's wealth), there is a dearth of explanation for how, and why, things got to be this way.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/02/09/johnston/print.html (951 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. David Brancaccio Interviews David Cay Johnston . 2.13.04 \| PBS
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, Oliver Wendell Holmes-- the jurist, said 80 years, "The taxes are the price we pay for civilization." There are a lot of people who want to have their civilization on a discount or free.
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, I -- that's-- principal reason I wrote this book is that I don't think what Americans know about their tax system has anything to do with the reality of it.
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: One of the salient features of the Bush tax cuts as opposed to the ones we've had prior to this time is that the tax cuts for the very wealthy become more and more valuable over time because of the nature of their design.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_dcjohnston.html (2629 words)

	David Cay Johnston's "Perfectly Legal"
		David Cay Johnston knows taxes: He's won one Pulitzer, and been nominated for several more, for writing about them for the New York Times.
		Johnston's anger at this fact is palpable and, after reading this book, yours will be, too.
		Interestingly, Johnston does not blame the faceless government bureaucracy for the mess, as most of us would be wont to do.
	www.corporatemofo.com /stories/031228johnston.htm (697 words)

	Robert Cay Johnston and perfectly legal and alternative minium tax and salem, OR
		But the startling reality for Johnston is that this twinning has been increasingly severed in the United States in the past generation, leading to significant inequities among peope, and, more offensively, leading to the possibility of a single mother of two, with an income of $30,000, "paying" for the tax breaks of the super rich.
		The "bad guy" in Johnston's scenario is a supine Congress that has increasingly bowed to pressures from the super rich to write legislation benefitting them and to balance the shortfall on the backs of the increasingly-squeezed middle class.
		Johnston's talk was really a clarion call to action, an entreaty for us to realize that what was at stake in Congressional tax policy is not simply the giving away of a few benefits to greedy corporations and individuals, but the endangering of our system of government itself.
	www.willamette.edu /~blong/CurrentEvents/RobertCayJohnston.html (719 words)

	David Johnston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Johnston (builder), specialist in environmentally friendly building and construction
		David A. Johnston, a volcanologist killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
		David Lloyd Johnston, former Principal of McGill University and current President of the University of Waterloo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Johnston (116 words)

	Arianna Online Forums - View Single Post - A tax code written for the wealthy by Rep.with help of Demo. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		David Cay Johnston: The 16th Amendment removed the requirement that would have made an income tax impractical.
		David Cay Johnston: Well, if that's what you tell the American public, of course people would be against that.
		David Cay Johnston: I often call it the stealth tax, because it sneaks up on you.
	www.ariannaonline.com /forums/showpost.php?p=16045&postcount=1 (2865 words)

	David Cay Johnston - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		In 1995 David Cay Johnston persuaded the editors of The New York Times to hire him to see if he could devise a new way to cover taxes, focusing on how the system operates rather than what politicians say about it.
		Johnston began his career when he talked his way, at age 19, into a job as a staff writer for the San Jose Mercury.
		Johnston's many investigations included hunting down a murderer the police had failed to catch, winning freedom for Tony Cooks, to whom a trial judge said "I believe you are innocent, but I sentence you to life in prison."
	penguinputnam.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000062819,00.html?... (476 words)

	nV News Forums - Social Insecurity - How The Rich Got Richer!!
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, AUTHOR, "PERFECTLY LEGAL": Well, in 1983 Alan Greenspan persuaded the Democrats who were in charge of Congress to overtax us on Social Security, that is to collect taxes in advance rather than on pay as you go system.
		JOHNSTON: Well, in the case of Social Security, if we were to go back to pay as you go, people making $50,000 a year would have $48 a week more in their pocket, particularly if we took it all out of the side paid by the worker.
		JOHNSTON: If you chart, Lou, the increase in income for the bottom 99 percent of Americans over that 30-year period, for each dollar that each person got in increased income -- and the average was $2,700, less than a hundred dollars a year -- you made it one inch high.
	www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=25517&pp=40 (4370 words)

	On the Media
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: When the income tax came into eff--into effect in 1913 there was an exemption for life insurance so that the widows and orphans of industrial workers killed in, in accidents wouldn't have to pay taxes on the one-time windfall they might get.
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Oh, it started with a tip, and that tip didn't particularly go anywhere, but then I got a second tipster who was outraged about this, and that tipster came back to me again and again when he wanted to with in--more information to help me understand this.
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: The lawyer who I talked to at the IRS was mystified by this.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_082302_tax.html (975 words)

	"Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston - Salon
		Johnston is best when he focuses on some of the least known and most egregious perks for the wealthy hidden in the tax code.
		Johnston touches on the difficulty of explaining taxes to the masses.
		Johnston says that simplifying the tax code is the only way out of this mess.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/02/09/johnston/index1.html (836 words)

	David Cay Johnston - A BuzzFlash Interview
		David Cay Johnston: The 16th Amendment removed the requirement that would have made an income tax impractical.
		David Cay Johnston: Well, if that's what you tell the American public, of course people would be against that.
		David Cay Johnston: I often call it the stealth tax, because it sneaks up on you.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/03/int04016.html (3271 words)

	NOW with David Brancaccio. Politics & Economy. David Cay Johnston \| PBS
		Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2001 for his many thoughtful and revealing articles on how individuals and corporations cheat on their taxes.
		Johnston was an investigative reporter at THE DETROIT FREE PRESS in Lansing, Michigan.
		Johnston studied economics and law at the University of Chicago in 1973.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/dcjohnston.html (290 words)

	David Cay Johnston - A BuzzFlash Interview
		David Cay Johnston: Well, the dollar that I invest or that you invest is the same as the dollar invested by someone who's very wealthy.
		David Cay Johnston: Which is a wealthy suburb of Fort Worth.
		David Cay Johnston: Now my observation was that this is part of a trend of what's called narrowing the tax base.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/03/int04017.html (4293 words)

	New York Times: Facts Refute Filmmaker’s Assertions on Income Tax?
		David Cay Johnston and the New York Times strongly advocate the “income tax” as purportedly administered by the IRS — especially its use to “soak the rich” solely on the basis of their possessing or acquiring (regardless of how justly) more private property than someone else.
		Johnston would be hard-pressed to produce a single case in which a federal court specifically asserted that the IRS's general application of Title 26 to the average American's wages is constitutional — and that is a very important distinction.
		Johnston’s article afforded them all an excellent opportunity to prove that the “income tax” as administered by the IRS is not a fraud, and shut the mouths of Russo and the rest of the Tax Honesty movement, just by citing the elusive law.
	www.democracyisnotfreedom.com /nyt_v_russo_01.asp (4111 words)

	David Cay Johnston - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		In 1995 David Cay Johnston persuaded the editors of The New York Times to hire him to see if he could devise a new way to cover taxes, focusing on how the system operates rather than what politicians say about it.
		Johnston began his career when he talked his way, at age 19, into a job as a staff writer for the San Jose Mercury.
		Johnston's many investigations included hunting down a murderer the police had failed to catch, winning freedom for Tony Cooks, to whom a trial judge said "I believe you are innocent, but I sentence you to life in prison."
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000062819,00.html?sym=BIO& (490 words)

	City Newspaper: Cover Story: Cover story: Tax watchdog
		Johnston is proud of his work and not shy about discussing his considerable journalistic accomplishments (see sidebar).
		Johnston: The central idea [of Perfectly Legal]is that our national myth, that we heavily tax the highest income Americans for the benefit of those who make much less, is literally a myth.
		Johnston began working at the age of 10, and by 13 had the equivalent of a full-time job: four newspaper routes in the morning and three in the afternoon, not to mention yard work and babysitting.
	www.rochester-citynews.com /gbase/Gyrosite/Content?oid=oid:2473 (3293 words)

	David Cay Johnston
		He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his running investigation of our tax system and was a finalist for that award in 2000 and in 2003 for beat reporting and for national reporting.
		Over the years, Johnston's many investigations included hunting down a murderer the police had failed to catch, winning freedom for Tony Cooks, to whom a trial judge said "I believe you are innocent, but I sentence you to life in prison."
		Johnston lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife, Jennifer Leonard, and their two daughters.
	www.motherjones.com /radio/2006/07/johnston_bio.html (703 words)

	Perfectly Legal - By David Cay Johnston
		Johnston eloquently argues that this represents a tax SHIFT – with the slack picked up by the poor, the middle class and even the lower rungs of the upper classes.
		DCJ has one major kooky idea which suggests that this shift of taxes off wealth and onto wages will lead to demands for greater social goods – as people want more for their tax dollars.
		DCJ concludes that this is a democracy issue, which we need to look at ourselves as a society and our attitudes about taxation.
	www.venusproject.com /ecs/Perfectly_Legal.html (3747 words)

	Tax Policy Center \| Events \| State of the Income Tax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		David Cay Johnston will talk about his new book at UI on January 9.
		Johnston, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his investigative reporting, has devoted the past nine years to exposing inequities in the U.S. tax code endorsed by the Reagan, Clinton and Bush administrations.
		DAVID CAY JOHNSTON has been a tax reporter for The New York Times since 1995.
	www.taxpolicycenter.org /news/perfectly_legal.cfm (684 words)

	UCLA Anderson School of Management \| Gerald Loeb Awards \| David Cay Johnston
		Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2001 for his many thoughtful and revealing articles on the Internal Revenue Service and problems in the tax system.
		Johnston was born in San Francisco on Dec. 24, 1948.
		Johnston is married to Jennifer Leonard, president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Area Community Foundation.
	www.anderson.ucla.edu /x5264.xml (206 words)

	City Pages - Everything You Know About Taxes is Wrong
		David Cay Johnston: They grasp the principles of it, yes, and the fundamental point that we are shifting the burden of taxes.
		Johnston: None of the news coverage of social security is addressing how it is a subsidy program for the super rich, none of it is addressing that President Bush is not being internally consistent when he says I want you to have more of your own money.
		Johnston: Many of the devices that very wealthy people use to defer or avoid taxes are not available to middle and upper middle class people either as a matter of law—only the rich are allowed to use them—or the transaction costs are such that unless you’ve got millions of dollars, you can’t do it.
	www.citypages.com /databank/26/1260/article12879.asp (5883 words)

	UNCW News - Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Cay Johnston speaks at UNCW
		David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, will be speaking on the campus of University of North Carolina Wilmington to the Master of Science in Accountancy students at 11 a.m.
		Johnston won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting and has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times since 2000.
		Johnston will speak about President Bush’s proposed tax changes to the federal income tax and social security and how tax shelters are used by the wealthy and corporations.
	appserv02.uncw.edu /news/article.asp?ID=1497 (157 words)

	Arianna Online Forums - A tax code written for the wealthy by Rep.with help of Demo. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I think the reason the $500k figure was included is because it is included in a group that Johnston discusses who were deceived by Bush and are going to be whacked by the alternative minimum tax.
		Johnston estimates the additional AMT collected because of the Bush cuts to be around 665 billion over the next 10 years, hardly chump change.
		Johnston makes the case that the AMT was deliberately left intact to preserve the illusion that this group were major beneficiaries of the Bush cuts.
	www.ariannaonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1489 (3860 words)

	David Cay Johnston on Taxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Johnston, who received the Pulitzer for his coverage of the Internal Revenue Service and tax issues in 2001, said that when he joined The Times in 1995 from The Philadelphia Inquirer, his goal was to cover taxes in a whole new way.
		The citation for his Pulitzer Prize praised "his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms." Johnston was a Pulitzer finalist in 2000 and 2003 for his tax coverage.
		Johnston said that when the tax system furthers the benefits of the few at the expense of the many, it is not fair and unconstitutional.
	www.baruch.cuny.edu /wsas/graduate_programs/mabj/DavidCayJohnstononTaxes.htm (402 words)

	Amazon.com: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Johnston describes in shocking detail the loopholes our government provides the "super rich"--from private individuals to profitable corporations—-to hide their wealth, to defer or evade tax payments, and to pass the bill to law-abiding middle-class Americans.
		Johnston evades the imposing abstractness of the tax code by keeping the story focused on individuals, from working-class parents facing audits to Internal Revenue Service officials desperate for the resources to revamp their procedures.
		Johnston shows how our tax system cheats most Americans out of their ability to save--or spend--while low taxes on investment incomes fill the pockets and swell the bankbooks of the super-rich to overflowing.
	www.amazon.com /Perfectly-Legal-Campaign-Benefit-Everybody/dp/1591840198 (2437 words)

	Amazon.de: English Books: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich-And ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, here reveals how fairness and equity have eroded from the American tax system.
		Johnston describes in shocking detail the loopholes our government provides the "super rich"--from private individuals to profitable corporations—-to hide their wealth, to defer or evade tax payments, and to pass the bill to law-abiding middle-class Americans.
		Johnston evades the imposing abstractness of the tax code by keeping the story focused on individuals, from working-class parents facing audits to Internal Revenue Service officials desperate for the resources to...
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/1591840198 (578 words)

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