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(Note: This week’s techbyte reproduces, in part, IPI President Tom Giovanetti’s recent “intervention” (i.

Looking forward to that end to the federal estate tax the Bush administration pushed through Congress? Good idea – except in some states.

What would the cyber world be like if an international body took over Internet management of the World Wide Web? Can you say, United Nations? It’s alarming to think that such a key factor in the global economy and information network could go the way of the United Nations, where corruption, incompetence and negligence are often winked at.

Never underestimate the ability of political candidates to devise new and innovative ways to use yourmoney to get them reelected — especially if the self-appointed nannies who try to limit honest campaign contributions keep clamping down on access to money.

The theft of intellectual property through copyright piracy and counterfeiting is costing U.

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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