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When digital downloads took off in the late Nineties, file-sharing services blossomed, too. The industry went into a tailspin as music sales virtually halved over the next decade. One 2007 study by IPI estimated that illegal downloading was costing the US economy $12.5bn a year.

By directing its energies toward tying up its competitors' time and resources in endless court battles, Apple mires the industry in litigious quicksand, diverts resources from innovation, and deprives consumers of new products and services.

While the economy will likely be the top voter concern in the November elections, energy may be a stealth issue that comes in second or third on many voters' lists.

A Jeb Hensarling leadership role could reignite principled conservatism in Congress. 

Skilled immigrants are good for the economy and for your pocketbook.

Manufacturing has been growing stronger thanks to the U.S. energy boom and a steady supply of inexpensive natural gas.

If the moratorium were "allowed to expire, states would begin to collect taxes on Internet access, or apply other discriminatory taxes that may already be in place but which have been held at bay during the moratorium," said IPI's Bartlett Cleland.

Apparently it’s good to delay veterans’ health care, fabricate medical records, cover up the fraud and harass whistleblowers—because Congress is rewarding such behavior.

Unilateral disarmament in America is rightly a non-starter in Congress, and if it’s a free market that we really want, zero-for-zero is the most achievable path forward.

IPI applauds efforts made today by the House Judiciary Committee moving forward on making the Internet tax moratorium permanent and refraining from introducing other issues that likely would have ended its progress in the House.