Publications

Some parents and students in a California town have privacy concerns about a school badge identification program.

Tired of going through the agony of income tax season? Consider the alternative maximum tax, or “max tax.

The public debate about Personal Retirement Accounts has been clouded by a smokescreen of false arguments from critics, and by a confusing array of options from reformers. Everything, it seems, is "on the table," except true Social Security reform based on personal accounts.

In an attempt to bring clarity and guidance to the debate, the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) submits these Design Principles for Social Security reform.

Wireless telephone service seems to get cheaper all the time.

Singapore is home to one of the world’s freest economies.

The green lobby has been knee-jerkingly opposed to genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

A congressional committee is considering extending a tax that was created to pay for the Spanish-American War to all Internet and data connections.

The most desirable method of financing the transition to personal retirement accounts is to modestly reduce the growth rate of federal spending. Raising taxes would harm the economy. And future benefit cuts are wholly unnecessary, not only because they would do nothing to bridge the short-term financing gap, but also because the eventual proceeds from large personal accounts would more than offset any savings gained from cuts in promised benefits.

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It’s not often that a regulator’s exit from an agency disappoints defenders of the free market.