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Entrepreneurs—where would the economy be without them? Nowhere.

Politicians are once again flirting with price controls. A price is a powerful conveyor of information to both buyers and sellers. Most companies engage in "differential pricing," so that low-income people have access to their products. But price controls actually hurt low-income people because they keep prices artificially high, plus they stifle competition and destroy innovation.

Sens.

That might appear to be a rather unusual question.

Ten years ago last week, Bill Clinton signed what was sold to the public as a landmark telecommunications law.

Tax competition.

This is the transcript of a speech given by IPI president Tom Giovanetti on Intellectual Property (IP) at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC Friday, February 10, 2006.

Mayors across the United States are all a twitter about proposals for franchise reform currently before the United States House and Senate.

Ever say something you wish you hadn’t? Or did you ever say something you shouldn’t have, but were too proud—or too uninformed—to admit you were wrong? We will let you decide which option most applies to the following quotes about President Bush’s tax cut efforts: It “threatens our prosperity and could return us to the big budget deficits of the 1980s.

In 2004 Congress passed and President Bush signed into law a three-year extension of the Internet Tax Moratorium, which has been in effect almost continually since 1998. Americans thus don’t have to worry about paying extra taxes for their access to the Internet, over and above what they already pay on telecom services. Or do they?