Proteins are discovered, not invented.
Discoveries are not patentable, although inventions are.
Conclusion: Protein patents are intrinsically flawed.
Inequality is correlated political instability.
Inequality is correlated with violent crime.
Economic inequality is correlated with reduced life expectancy.
Simple justice establishes that there is no moral justification for chief executives being paid hundreds of
Conclusion: It is therefore morally just to decry the
A shortage of workers forces employers to pay higher wages.
This forces employers to raise prices to cover added labor costs, leading to inflation.
Conclusion: Recent employment numbers are an indication of a rising inflation rate by the spring if not right away.
Married people are healthier and more economically stable
Children of married people do better than children of unmarried people on a variety of indicators.
Marriage is thus a socially reliable act.
Conclusion (2): There should be some way of spreading the
principle of support for marriage throughout the tax code.
People who marry without love may later come to love the
The divorce rate is very low in countries that have
The divorce rate is very high in countries where
people base their marriage decisions on love.
People who marry the person they love do not always love
that person or have a successful marriage.
The entire tax system depends upon the vast majority of
people who attempt to pay the taxes they owe.
People pay taxes when they have confidence that they are being treated fairly and that their competitors and neighbors are also paying what is due.
If people conclude that the IRS cannot meet these basic
expectations, the risk to the tax system will be high and the effects difficult to reverse.
Since 1976, states in the United States have executed
612 people and released 81 from death row who were found to be in...