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The total Social Security trust fund surplus would immediately fund 3.2 percent personal retirement accounts, stopping the spending raid on the trust fund and starting the personal accounts so broadly supported by the public. This would begin to solve Social Security’s unfunded liability problem while leaving the door open to a future extension of the accounts or other steps necessary for a comprehensive solution.

Indexing Social Security benefits to the growth of prices is politically indefensible. Even with small personal accounts, price indexing would result in even lower returns for workers, and likely to lead to tax increases. A far better alternative are large personal accounts, which would make price indexing completely unnecessary. Such accounts would provide workers with much higher returns than under the current system, and restore Social Security to permanent solvency.

You’ve heard of the French medical organization Medecins sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders)? Well, here in the states we have Taxes sans Borders.

The best pharmaceutical science ever created is of little value when patients don’t take their medication.

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The Supreme Court last week decided in the case of Kelo v.

States are raking in tax receipts, but given their constant moaning about needing to tax Internet sales and access, as well as voice-over-Internet protocol telephone service, who would know? Alaska, for instance, has seen its tax revenues soar nearly 40% from July of last year to March of this year.

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By now, most of you have heard about the mess General Motors is in.

Consumer groups and the media are putting pressure on public officials to allow U.S. citizens to reimport drugs from foreign countries like Canada. Using an economic simulation model, this report concludes reimportation or price controls would have a significant negative impact on the Washington economy, and its large biotech sector.