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Side Effects: What Candidates Don't Tell You Kindle Edition

by Tomas Payne (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Don't let candidates bowl you over. What they don't want you to see.

To win elections, candidates appeal to our anger and frustrations, offering radical solutions, but what aren't they telling us? In debates, they pitch the good times they'll bring. What about the side-effects of their medicine?
This book takes you behind the scenes on issues of the day and campaign promises. It sheds light on the promises, exposes myths, examines economic and other consequences, and explores options. Sorry, no dirt on the people, just on their promises.
Side-Effects answers questions such as:

Will raising income and estate taxes hurt the billionaires and redistribute wealth?

Why healthcare is broken and what options we have.

Why wages are depressed and what we can do about it.

What are the implications of various immigration plans?

Side-Effects cuts through the BS to look at campaign promises on wealth redistribution, taxes, Social Security, healthcare, depressed wages, and many other topics and aims to bring facts to these issues instead of sound bites.
What reviewers are saying: "You couldn't have a timelier premise for a book... He brings order to political noise." - Dennis Hetzel (Windy City Reviews)
"Side Effects...should be on the reading lists of all voters." - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
What Amazon readers are saying about Side Effects:
★★★★★ "Get the facts. Get it right."
★★★★★ "Dare to go beyond the sound bites!... Great book!"
If you are ideological and only seek to reinforce your beliefs, this book isn't for you. If you want to understand the implications of campaign promises then grab this book and weigh the facts.

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"You couldn't have a timelier premise for a book. Side Effects: What Candidates Don't Tell You intends to "cut through the BS" and take a fact-based look at the complex issues candidates should address directly instead of offering simplistic sound bites.

The devil, as the cliché goes, is in the details, and that's where Tomas Payne lives in this book. In less than 250 pages, Payne addresses pretty much everything--tax policy, income inequality, national debt, immigration, healthcare reform, climate change, free trade vs. protectionism, tort reform, the war on terror, the roots of Muslim fundamentalism, and more.

That's damn audacious. Between that and the obvious pen name of Tomas Payne--a riff, of course, on Thomas Paine, the "Common Sense" hero of the American Revolution--your first instinct will be to raise eyebrows in skepticism and seek hidden agendas. Consider the sheer scope of knowledge required. Payne's ambitions reminded me of a 2003 best seller that achieved an even more audacious goal: Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.

So, guess what? For the most part, Payne actually pulls it off. If you care about what's happening in American politics, you won't regret the time invested in this book.

His scope of expertise is stronger in some areas than others, and sometimes his bias shows, but facts actually matter to Payne--quite a sharp contrast to some of our candidates. Just when you think you have him pegged ... he surprises you."

"Regarding taxation, he carefully and convincingly dissects both the Democrats who think income taxes can go much higher and Republicans who think taxes should always go down, down, down. Instead, he finds a sweet spot where tax rates work best. He demonstrates how taxing too much slows activity and disrupts incentives to invest. Then, he describes the serious damage that occurs if you starve government."

"How should we deal with income inequality? He discusses notions most of us have never considered, such as the differences between wealth and income. Then, he persuasively shows why focusing on more taxation of "the one percent" may be a fool's errand."

"In the end, it doesn't matter if you agree with all his prescriptions for our problems. You come away with better questions. That's a start toward better answers. The strength of this book is the impressive skill Payne uses to illuminate these complex, messy issues with facts and honest insight. He brings order to political noise with the kind of radical clarity that might have made his namesake proud.

Consider Side Effects like a policy prophylactic. It will protect you from what many candidates will spew between now and November, and it wouldn't hurt for some of them to read it." - Dennis Hetzel.(Windy City Reviews)

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01G0KUW0G
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Finlee Augare Books (July 4, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 4, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1148 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages

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Author is a CPA and has an MBA in finance, a BS in Political Science, and over 30 years of experience in business. He is a long time student of business, the ever-entertaining field of economics, and of the political shell game.

Like many of you, he is frustrated by candidates not addressing the real issues or doing so with simplistic sound bites that don’t stand up to scrutiny. That's why he dove into campaign promises to see how they fared and found a number of surprises he’d like to share with you.

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A very important read for all Americans who want to be informed.

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2016

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Get passed intuition. Get the facts. Get it right. The author takes this approach. So should every responsible American. It's not so important about accepting everything the author states. It is important to adopt his methods. Be curious. Dig out the facts. Run the numbers. Most importantly THINK! That is the real take - away from this book. I highly recommend this book. I hope Mr. Trump reads it particularly the author's recommendation of VAT in lieu of tariffs.

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Larry Giarth

This book is Rife with ERRORS

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2020

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This author makes errors of fallacious logic and thinking, even in the areas in which he claims degrees. Further, he shows ignorance of the intents of the US Constitution by confusing a Right with a privilege granted by law. Additionally, he virtually claims he's a scientist with expertise in climatology. REAL climatologists do not claim that there is any global warming taking place because the evidence is not clear -- let alone claiming the canard of "anthropogenic (man caused) global warming". This author needs to learn critical thinking skills, and he needs to do his homework before writing another book.

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016

Of all the books I've ever read on contemporary politics, this book has some qualities that I've never seen before. Depending on what you'd prefer to get from a book like this, you could perceive those qualaties as positive or negative.

In the early days of the US, political theorist Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense and now an author with essentially the same name (maybe Tomas Payne is a pen name?) shows a lot of common sense in exploring the current political environment in the US. Payne explains his thinking clearly and in multiple instances had me questioning my current political stances. If that possibility concerns you, this book isn't for you. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum you'll almost surely find that Payne agrees with you on some things and disagrees on others. If you're willing to have your thoughts and political beliefs challenged, this book will do the trick.

**Originally written for "Books and Pals" book blog. May have received a free review copy. **

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Old Warden

Dare to go beyond the sound bites!

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2016

A timely book we should all read. Payne effectively lays out, in easily understood language, the issues being debated (???) by today's political candidates. More importantly, he does not take sides, instead explaining the complexities of the issues. He goes deep, showing the stupidity and recklessness of today's "sound bites". Covered are issues such as immigration, taxes, wages, climate change, and many more. Truth be told, after reading this I am now frightened at the challenges we face! Great book!

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Kilbarchan

If you are looking for a carefully written book, look elsewhere

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2020

The author wants to "peal back the layers of the onion ...".

peal
/pēl/
noun
1.
a loud ringing of a bell or bells.

2.
a loud repeated or reverberating sound of thunder or laughter.
"Ross burst into peals of laughter"

peel1
/pēl/
verb
1.
remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, or shrimp).
"she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care"

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