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Re My Objections to IP: Nevermind

Mises Wire Stephan Kinsella
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Since IP causes only about $40 billion or so a year damage to the economy, I hereby withdraw my objections. That amount is obviously trivial, in view of trillion-dollar bailouts, trillion-dollar wars, scores of trillions of dollars of debt. And as for the $80 billion tax-funded innovation prize fund–chicken feed. Let ‘er rip!

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