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November 21, 2006
Are Democrats Becoming the Party of Lower Taxes?, Part II
It’s too soon to know if their words will be followed by actions, but some of the Democrats’ words sound pretty good.
November 16, 2006
A Nation of Laws—Or Corporate Pardons?
On October 20, the 11th Circuit, United States Court of Appeals issued a permanent injunction against EchoStar Communications for illegally retransmitting local broadcast network signals.
November 14, 2006
Are Democrats Becoming the Party of Lower Taxes?
It’s probably fair to say that one of the reasons the Republicans lost so heavily last week is that on government spending, entitlement programs and earmarks, they abandoned their historic positions.
November 9, 2006
Consumers Benefitting from Communications Competition
For decades, deregulation opponents predicted the devastating effect that divestiture and deregulation would have and yet, the market place has once again proved that competition inevitably accrues to the consumers’ benefit—in a big way and a recently released study by Microeconomic Consulting and Research Associates, Inc.
November 7, 2006
What Voters Should Have Been Thinking About on Election Day
The campaigning is just about over, the pollsters have either succeeded or failed, and by now voters have decided what their concerns are on this election day.
November 2, 2006
Google the Term "Hypocrite"
In January of this year, the search engine company Google negotiated an arrangement with wireless phone manufacturer Motorola to "integrate a Google icon onto select devices so that users can connect directly to Google anytime, anywhere at the click of a button.
October 31, 2006
Bad Policies Never Die; They Just Move to Harvard
So that’s why President Bush’s proposal to bring personal accounts to Social Security went down the tubes!
As the chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors from 2003 to 2005, Dr.
October 26, 2006
More Tax Discrimination Against E-commerce
Thousands of Americans use the Internet to negotiate lower prices for hotel rooms by going to online hotel-booking companies such as Hotels.
October 24, 2006
The Dark Reasons Behind Light Rail
If you live on the construction route of a light rail system in a major municipality you feel like you are in the middle of a war zone, where blockades and cratered streets abound.
October 20, 2006
Video Franchise Reform: Goals, Principles, and Lessons of Deregulation
Government franchising and licensing began in the 19th Century but today stands only for revenue retention and monopoly preservation, especially when the concept of a “natural monopoly” in communications is an obsolete concept. Given broad-ranging competition, the goals and guiding principles of telecom deregulation should be clear, including allowing the market to set prices, ending anticipatory regulation, and applying public policy in a neutral and non-discriminatory way.


