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1 Gallup News Service, March 13, 2000 2 Solveig Singleton [Director of Information Studies, Cato Institute], "Privacy & Private Sector Databases," Cato Handbook for Congress, 1999, p. 189. 3 Solveig Singleton, "Don't Sacrifice Freedom for "Privacy," Wall Street Journal, June 24, 1999, p. A18 4 Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence, p. 303 5 See Charlotte Twight [Prof. Economics, Boise State University], "Watching You: Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans," The Independent Review, Fall 1999, p. 166. 6 Paul Schwartz, "Data Processing and Government Administration: The Failure of the American Legal Response to the Computer," Hastings Law Journal 43 (part 2), 1992, p.1356, n. 165. 7 It's worth noting here that the Social Security taxes that met such resistance were a small fraction of the rates Americans pay today, and the rates of return were vastly higher since the first recipients collected benefits for many years more than they paid into the system. 8 Congressional Record, text of H.R. 2337, June 24, 1999. 9 Claire Wolfe, "A Number, Not a Name: Big Brother by Stealth," The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, May 1998, p. 299. 10 Cato Institute, "Cato's Social Security Alternative," Social Security Privatization, www.socialsecurity.org/alternative.html11 See NCPA's Social Secuity website: www.mysocialsecurity.org and the Cato Institute's www.cato.org for valuable information and links to other resources. 12 Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944, pp. 134-152. 13 David Friedman [Prof. Economics, Santa Clara University] "A World of Strong Privacy: Promises and Perils of Strong Encryption," Social Philosophy & Policy, volume 13, number 2 (Summer 1996), also online at .14 John Goodman and Gerald Musgrave, Patient Power, 1992. This book together with recent updates available on the website of the National Center for Policy Analysis ( www.ncpa.org) provides exhaustive evidence and argumentation on the subject of the harms of the current system of health care and the advantages of Medical IRAs.15 See http://www.ncpa.org/w/w14.html New York Times, June 20, 199816 See http://www.ncpa.org/health/pdh/jan98p.html17 The deductible is the part of one's health care bill that must be paid out-of-pocket before the insurance coverage begins. A low- or no-deductible policy requires little or no out-of-pocket payment by the patient when they use the health care system. 18 Rep. Dick Armey, Testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, April 21, 2000 19 See United States v. First National City Bank, 568 F.2d 853 (2nd Cir. 1977) and United States v. Mellon Bank, N.A., 521 F.2d 708 (3rd Cir. 1975). 20 Tony Mankus, "The IRS Seizure," 1999 21 Reported by TRAC IRS (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University) http://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/findings/aboutIRS/keyFindings.html 23 See also excellent online materials provided by Citizens for a Sound Economy at www.cse.org/informed/flatTax.html 24 Quoted in Dick Armey’s testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, April 21, 2000 25 See Dick Armey, "The Case Against the National Sales Tax," Policy Review Summer 1995. 26 Fiscal Year 2000 Budget of the United States Government. 27 Sheldon Richman, "Let's Abolish the Income Tax," Foundation for Economic Education, 1995 28 See the Cato Handbook for Congress, online at www.cato.org |
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