Publication Type
May 12, 2005
Up, Up and Away!
Private space flight should no longer be the stuff of science fiction.
May 10, 2005
Do We Want to Let the VAT Out of the Bag?
With tax reform on the agenda in Washington, or at least in the White House, this is the season for proposals.
May 5, 2005
IPI Launches IPBlog.org
If you have an interest in the protection of intellectual property, you need to know about a new source for the most current and accurate information on that topic.
May 3, 2005
Why Judicial Appointments Matter
Democrats have cooked up the so-called judicial filibuster to subvert several of President Bush’s nominations to the federal bench, which means that Republicans must find 60 votes just to have an up-or-down vote.
April 28, 2005
In Praise of WIPO
The following is an Intervention by the Institute for Policy Innovation delivered at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Inter-Sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda, in Geneva Switzerland on April 13, 2005, by IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
April 26, 2005
Taxing Times
Will The New York Timesever understand economics? Not if a recent column by Fortunemagazine writer Anna Bernasek, published in the NYT, is any indication.
April 21, 2005
No ‘Use’ for This Tax
If politicians want to know why average people get so fed up with political antics, they have to look no further than their newfound interest in the “use tax.
April 19, 2005
A ‘Dog Bites (Tax) Man’ Story
A recent poll by The Associated Press “reveals” the tax code is too complex, according to the public.
April 15, 2005
Necessity Breeds Invention (Protection)
Patents are the lifeblood of creative and innovative societies.
April 12, 2005
Galveston, Oh Galveston!
It’s rather curious that the Social Security debate has come this far without President Bush pointing out that employees of three Texas counties replaced Social Security with personal retirement accounts nearly 25 years ago.