Publications

El código de fuente abierta no es necesariamente la mejor forma de desarrollar software. Aunque puede tener una función muy importante en los ambientes especializados de computación, no aplica al mercado masivo de software. Los proponentes del código de fuente abierta son derechos adquiridos que han sustituido el mito por la realidad. Las personas que dictan la política no deberían asumir de una manera equivocada que este proceso esencialmente derivado es un sustituto para la innovación.

Open source is not necessarily the best way to develop software. While it may fill a useful role in specialized computing environments, open source does not translate to the mass market for software. Proponents of open source are vested interests who have substituted myth for reality. Policy makers should not mistakenly assume that this essentially derivative process is any substitute for innovation.

A fonte aberta não é necessariamente a melhor forma de desenvolvimento de software. Embora possa ter um papel útil em ambientes de computação especializada, não tem aplicação no mercado de massa de software. Os proponentes da fonte aberta, obedecendo interesses próprios, substituíram a realidade pelo mito. Os responsáveis pelo estabelecimento de políticas não devem assumir de modo errôneo que esse processo, essencialmente derivado, possa ser um substituto da inovação.

Thanks to Sen. Lamar Alexander and a group of former Governors in the Senate, the states now have power to tax your access to the Internet. Sen. Alexander’s blocking move prevented the Senate from extending the Internet Tax Moratorium that has been standard public policy under both the Clinton and Bush administrations.

By asserting state primacy over telecommunications policy and e-commerce, Alexander and his allies are substituting their own twisted constitutional construction for the wisdom of the Founders.

In the past three years, the federal budget has exploded by more than one-half trillion dollars, under a Republican Congress and a Republican president. This paper presents a specific strategy for cutting programs and streamlining government. The benefits of a reduction in government size and modernization of government mission would be enormous—a windfall that would lower the tax burden and fund new, critical policy initiatives.

Some suggest that proposals for Social Security reform should be judged by the degree to which they require general revenue financing. But this flawed yardstick is biased against personal account plans, because it doesn't accurately measure transition costs, and doesn't account for the dramatically increased benefits of personal accounts. The only way to evaluate reform plans is to weigh all of the costs against all of the benefits.

This guide answers some of the questions about the safety concerns associated with prescription drug importation and whether consumers ought to have the right to buy imported drugs even if they are aware of the significant risks.

Up until now, establishment Washington has assumed that any personal account option for Social Security would involve at most 2 percentage points or so of the 12.4% Social Security payroll tax. But earlier this year, IPI published a plan offering a progressive personal account option for Social Security which involves a much larger personal account option, averaging 6.4 percentage points. That plan has now been officially scored by the Chief Actuary of Social Security regarding how it would impact Social Security, and in particular the long term financial deficits of that program.

This is the memorandum from the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration, Steve Goss, estimating the financial effects of Peter Ferrara's Progressive Proposal for Social Security Personal Accounts, published by IPI.

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A conservative, Republican governor in Alabama is championing a massive new tax-and-spend scheme, replete with class warfare rhetoric and hidden taxes. This represents a complete departure from the tax cuts and fiscal discipline that have been a hallmark of conservative philosophy and Republican aspirations for decades.