In his new book, “The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money,” Tim Carney, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, argues that big business and big government have a quiet partnership with each other — and it isn’t good for America. The Examiner interviewed Carney to get an insight into this unhealthy relationship.

Q Your book seems challenges political conventional wisdom in several ways. Although the assumption is that businesses thrive when there is minimal government intervention, you actually argue that there is a “quiet partnership” between big business and big government. What is that partnership and how is it mutually beneficial?

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