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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.html
11
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 http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/Strong_Privacy/Strong_Privacy.html#Crypto-anarchy.
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, 1998
16
See http://www.ncpa.org/health/pdh/jan98p.html
17
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.
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