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The Inside Story of How Billionaires Stole Two Tax Cuts and Sold Out the Working Class

The Big Beautiful Bill: How The GOP Robbed America

by Merv Moore

What if the biggest tax bill in a generation was designed, from the first page to the last, to make you think you won while someone else took everything?

THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL EXPOSED is a line-by-line, number-by-number dissection of the most consequential and deceptive piece of tax legislation in modern American history. It does not rely on partisan talking points. It relies on the actual text of the bill.

The permanent provisions, the ones locked into law forever with no expiration date and no sunset clause, flow almost entirely to corporations, billionaires, and the wealthiest dynasties in America.

The $1.3 trillion cost of making the corporate tax rate permanently 21 percent. The $1 trillion pass-through deduction expansion that allows wealthy business owners to shield even more income from taxation. The estate tax exemption raised to $30 million per couple, ensuring that billionaire dynasties can pass their fortunes to heirs without paying a single dollar.

And what did working families receive?

Two hundred dollars per child added to the child tax credit - $3.85 per week. A temporary tip deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary overtime deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary senior deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary auto loan deduction for American-made cars that expires in 2028.

Notice the pattern. Everything for working families has an expiration date. Everything for the wealthy does not.

They were betting you would never check the math. This book checks it for you.

More books by Merv Moore

World Baseball Guy

The Overseas Adventures of an American Coach

Marvin "Merv" Moore was one of the early trailblazers of American baseball coaches relocating overseas to teach the sport to European athletes. The native Texan played a vital role in elevating the game in Switzerland and transformed one of Europe's weakest national teams into a legitimate B-Pool contender. However, while he was achieving success on the baseball diamond, his personal life was in turmoil.

Burdened with the guilt of not preventing the suicide of his best friend at the age of 19, Merv turned to drugs and alcohol to escape these haunting feelings. He was the one whom his friend called late at night to ramble incoherently until he fell asleep on the phone. He was the one who helped Stanley prepare a last will and testament without even considering death. He was the only one who might have saved his best friend's life. But he dropped the ball.

World Baseball Guy is a collection of 12 real-life stories from places like Basel, Berlin, Zagreb, Vienna, Barcelona, Bandar Seri Begawan, Thimphu, and Kathmandu. Follow the wild adventures of Merv as he navigates living in foreign countries and pursuing a coaching career, all while battling his inner demons.

From playing street baseball with kids at a Slovenian housing project in Ljubljana to having a nightmarish picnic with gymnasts in Ukraine to almost provoking a public riot in Croatia — come along for an extraordinary worldwide journey of struggle and personal growth.

The Grifter-In-Chief

The Oval Office Money Machine

What happens when the highest court in the land removes every legal check on the presidency — and the man who benefits has no intention of showing restraint?

In a series of landmark rulings — Trump v. United States, Trump v. Anderson, Trump v. CASA, and more — the Supreme Court built something the Founders never imagined: a presidency effectively shielded from criminal prosecution, insulated from electoral accountability, and freed from the financial ethics rules designed to prevent corruption. Then it handed the keys to Donald Trump.

The Grifter-In-Chief is the story of what came next.

Drawing on blockchain data, congressional records, federal filings, and investigative reporting, this book follows the money through every arm of the Trump second term:

1. The $TRUMP memecoin that transferred nearly $2 billion from retail investors to family-controlled wallets.

2. The pardon pipeline where access to clemency carried an unofficial price.

3. The no-bid contracts that turned the federal government into a vendor for Trump-adjacent businesses.

4. The defense deals and international mining ventures run by the president's sons.

5. The foreign billions flowing into Trump-linked funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and beyond.

At the center of it all is a simple and damning question: when a president cannot be prosecuted, cannot be removed from the ballot, and cannot be sued for accepting foreign gifts — what is there to stop him from treating the Oval Office as a personal money machine?

The Grifter-In-Chief is not a partisan polemic. It is a documented account of the most profitable presidency in American history — chapter by chapter, dollar by dollar — and a reckoning with what the collapse of constitutional accountability looks like in practice.

Includes:

- The Supreme Court rulings that created a law-free zone around the presidency.

- The $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins — how they worked, who lost, and who cashed out.

- World Liberty Financial and the stablecoin loophole.

- The pardon pipeline and the price of presidential clemency.

- No-bid contracts and the imperial capital.

- Don Jr., Eric Trump, and the Pentagon's money.

- The Qatar jet, the Saudi billions, and the arms bazaar.

- Mar-a-Lago as a seat of government — and a profit center.

"The Supreme Court created a law-free zone around the president of the United States. Donald Trump stepped into that zone with both feet."

The Fentanyl Files

The Sobering Truth About The Opioid and Fentanyl Crisis

74,702 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses in a single year. The Fentanyl Files is the definitive account of how that happened, and why it has not stopped.

Author Merv Moore spent years tracing the full length of the fentanyl supply chain, from the chemical labs of China and the cartel boardrooms of Sinaloa to the desert corridors of Arizona, the encrypted dark web marketplaces, and the grief-stricken small towns of Middle America. What he found was not a drug problem. It was a system, engineered for profit, and operating at industrial scale.

Part investigative journalism, part human tragedy, and part policy reckoning, The Fentanyl Files takes readers inside every link in that deadly chain. Moore introduces the Mexican cartels that abandoned heroin the moment they discovered fentanyl could be manufactured for pennies and sold for fortunes. He follows the scouts, the middlemen, the pill press operators, and the dark web vendors who keep the supply flowing. He sits with the mothers, grandfathers, and siblings who are raising the children that the crisis left behind.

The Fentanyl Files does not offer easy answers. It offers the truth, told through the voices of the people living it, and a clear-eyed examination of a crisis that will not end until America decides it has had enough.

ANXIOUS NATION

Why America Is the Most Stressed Country on Earth and What We Can Do About It

What if anxiety is not your problem? What if it is America's?

More than half of American adults now report clinical levels of anxiety. One in five carries a diagnosed anxiety disorder. In 2024 alone, 43% of adults said they felt more anxious than the year before. Among teenagers, nearly one in three already meets the criteria for a diagnosable anxiety disorder. These are not the statistics of a mental health challenge. They are the data points of a national emergency.

ANXIOUS NATION: Why America Is the Most Stressed Country on Earth and What We Can Do About It is a sweeping, rigorously researched investigation into how the United States became the most anxiety-ridden wealthy nation on the planet, and what it will take to change it.

This is not a self-help book. There are no five-step plans, no morning routines, no breathing exercises dressed up as solutions to a systemic catastrophe. Instead, ANXIOUS NATION does what almost no other book on this subject dares to do: it follows the anxiety back to its roots.

America is not tired. America is terrified. And it does not have to be.

ANXIOUS NATION is the diagnosis this country has been waiting for, and the beginning of the conversation that could finally change it.

The Automation Cliff

Which Jobs Are Already Gone and How to Build a Career That Survives What's Coming

Something is wrong with the job market, and most people can feel it — they just can't name it.

Hiring freezes that never lift. Entry-level positions that vanish without explanation. Experienced professionals quietly pushed out and replaced by software no one wants to discuss in public. The automation wave isn't a distant threat on the horizon. It already made landfall. The question is no longer whether your industry will be affected — it's whether you'll recognize the warning signs before your livelihood disappears with the rest.

In The Automation Cliff, author Merv Moore strips away the reassuring myths sold by economists, tech companies, and higher education institutions and replaces them with a clear-eyed account of what automation actually does to labor markets, how it spreads through industries in ways most workers never anticipate, and which careers are already crumbling beneath a professional veneer of normalcy.

This is not a book about robots taking over the world. It's a book about what's happening right now — in offices, hospitals, law firms, financial institutions, and college campuses — and what you can do about it before the cliff gives way beneath you.

The Automation Cliff is written for professionals who are done being patronized by optimistic headlines and ready for an honest conversation about the future of work. Knowledge alone won't save your career. But the right knowledge, applied early enough, absolutely can.

The edge is closer than you think. Start walking back from it now.

LEAVING AMERICA

Why a Record Number of Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship, Seeking Residency Abroad, and What It Means for the Country They're Leaving Behind

The United States has long defined itself as the world's most coveted destination, a nation built on the promise that the tired, the poor, and the ambitious will find here a life worth living. But a growing wave of Americans have made a different calculation. They are leaving, not for adventure or a gap year, but because the arithmetic of American life has stopped making sense.

In "Leaving America: Why a Record Number of Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship, Seeking Residency Abroad, and What It Means for the Country They're Leaving Behind," journalist and researcher Merv Moore takes an unflinching, deeply reported look at one of the most consequential and least discussed social shifts of our era.

Chapter by chapter, Moore profiles retirees in Mexico and Panama, young professionals in Berlin and Tokyo, entrepreneurs in Estonia and Medellín, Black Americans in Lisbon and Accra, and families who decided that another country would raise their children better than the one that still calls itself the greatest on earth.

"Leaving America" is not a celebration of departure or a condemnation of those who stay. It is a rigorous, compassionate, and often deeply moving investigation into what the emigration wave reveals about America in the 2020s.

The verdict of the departed is quiet, undeniable, and growing. This book asks what it will take for America to finally listen.

Above the Law

The Supreme Court's Gift of Unchecked Power and the End of American Democracy as We Knew It

On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling that shattered more than two centuries of constitutional understanding. In a 6-3 decision split along partisan lines, the Court declared that presidents enjoy broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, effectively placing the most powerful office in the world beyond the reach of the law. It was the moment the founders feared most, and the moment a captive Supreme Court made inevitable.

Above the Law is the definitive account of how America arrived at this precipice and what comes next.

With the precision of a legal scholar and the urgency of an investigative reporter, Merv Moore traces the full arc of this constitutional catastrophe: the immunity ruling that overturned two centuries of American legal precedent; the staggering expansion of presidential powers that now operate without criminal deterrence; the specific, documented mechanisms by which a president can enrich himself, his family, and his political allies while holding office; and the pay-for-play pardon economy that has turned the clemency power into a loyalty enforcement tool and a potential revenue stream.

Moore examines what the founding fathers actually built, and why they built it. Drawing on the Federalist Papers, the Constitutional Convention debates, and the writings of Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson, he reconstructs the precise guardrails the founders designed to prevent any one person from attaining unchecked power. Then he shows, piece by piece, how the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority dismantled those guardrails while the country watched.

The book delivers a damning portrait of a Supreme Court that has ceased to function as an independent institution. From the Heritage Foundation's pipeline of ideologically vetted justices to the undisclosed luxury travel, real estate transactions, and private jet flights that entangled Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito with Republican megadonors, Moore documents how dark money, partisan loyalty, and ethical collapse transformed the nation's highest court into an arm of the conservative political movement.

At the heart of Above the Law is a chilling hypothetical: a detailed, legally grounded scenario depicting what a future president who fully understands and exploits these new powers could do to the American government. None of it requires breaking the law. Under the current legal architecture, all of it is the law.

Moore also presents the definitive accounting of Donald Trump's record of constitutional transgression across two terms, from the obstruction of the Mueller investigation to the events of January 6, from the abuse of the pardon power to the retention of classified documents. It is a case study in how far a president can push when the institutions designed to stop him have been weakened, captured, or corrupted.

Above the Law does not end in despair. Its final chapters map a serious reform agenda and argue, with clarity and conviction, that the same history that teaches us how democracies fall also teaches us that citizens who understand what is at stake have the power to change its course.

The founders gave us a republic, if we can keep it. This book is about what we stand to lose if we don't.

The Frugal Expat

Live a 5-star life in Southeast Asia on $1,500 a month

Millions of Americans are quietly running the same terrifying calculation: what they have saved, what they are projected to save, and what Social Security might deliver does not add up to the retirement they spent forty years working toward.

The Frugal Expat is a practical, deeply personal, and occasionally funny guide to relocating to Southeast Asia and stretching a modest retirement income into a genuinely abundant life.

This book covers everything an honest guide must cover. It starts with the uncomfortable questions: Is this life actually for you? Not everyone is suited for expat life, and Author Merv Moore uses a frank self-assessment framework covering personality, health, relationships, and finances to help readers decide before they pack a single box.

The Frugal Expat is for anyone who suspects that the retirement they want is already funded, just waiting in a country they haven't considered yet.

THE REPUBLICAN SUPREME COURT

How Conservative Justices Captured America's Highest Court

For generations, Americans were taught that the Supreme Court stood apart from politics. Justices were referees, not players. The law was the law.

That idea is now gone.

In The Republican Supreme Court, the evidence is laid out case by case, ruling by ruling, and dollar by dollar. Conservative justices have dismantled precedents that stood for half a century. They have applied one standard to Republican presidents and another to Democratic ones. They have accepted luxury travel and undisclosed gifts from billionaire donors with business before the Court. They have handed victories to the Heritage Foundation, weakened public unions, opened the floodgates to dark money, and granted a former president broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

The rulings did not happen by accident. They were the product of a fifty-year legal and political project, built through the Federalist Society, funded by Republican mega-donors, and delivered by justices who knew exactly what they were being confirmed to do.

This book is not a polemic. It is a record. The votes are documented. The money is documented. The relationships are documented. The gap between what justices said at their confirmation hearings and what they did once confirmed is documented.

The Supreme Court belongs to the American people. This book is for anyone who wants it back.

THE ULTIMATE SPORTS TRIVIA BOOK: SHOW ME THE MONEY

Professional Contracts, Career Earnings, Endorsements, Bonuses & NIL Deals

Sports trivia has always celebrated the champions, the records, and the unforgettable moments. But there is another scoreboard, one that measures value in contracts, bonuses, endorsement checks, and the power of a personal brand. The Ultimate Sports Trivia Book: Show Me the Money takes you behind the scenes and into the financial engine that drives every major sport.

This is not your typical trivia book. You will discover the biggest contracts in history, the most outrageous endorsement empires, and the strangest incentive clauses ever written. You will learn which legends banked more from shoe deals than from their playing salaries, which college athletes became million-dollar brands overnight, and which retired stars still cash checks long after their final games.

Each section features multiple-choice, true or false, fill-in-the-blank, and ranking-based questions. Difficulty levels range from Rookie Money to Show Me the Money expert challenges. A master answer key, a special bonus round of mixed-sport questions, and a comprehensive glossary of sports money terms round out the book.

Whether you are a casual fan or a die-hard sports business nerd, this book will change the way you watch the games. Forget the final score. It is time to follow the money. Show me what you know.