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Amazon.com and Overstock.com are suing New York to keep their customers (and themselves) free of New York State sales tax. While tax collectors have shown great imagination in finding new ways to milk the Internet for new revenues, New York is one of few states trying to impose sales tax directly on online purchases.

One current intellectual property debate is whether or not radio broadcasters should be required to license the music they play over the air.

The IRS recently released its “Statistics of Income, 2008” for the spring quarter and guess what, we’re getting more “progressive” all the time.

Since the annual meeting of the G8 is one of the most significant policy events of the year, it was a positive sign that “Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” was prominent on the list of global economic issues discussed by G8 leaders in Japan.

It’s fun spending other people’s money—at least until the money starts running low.

A new proposal, currently called the “Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008,” is floating around the US Senate these days—a proposal to fight organized crime that involves “the theft and interstate fencing of large volumes of stolen retail merchandise.

The government determines how much it pays doctors for seeing Medicare patients, so you know that’s going to create problems.

The need to achieve technological breakthroughs to provide cleaner, more efficient sources of energy may indeed be the race-to-the-moon for this generation of American inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs.

He’s baaaccck! And maybe that’s a good thing.