During the epic Wanniski epoch including the good growth years of Reagan and of Clinton tax policy was fought out, vividly, in the public and politicalsphere.
As the SOPA mess demonstrated, it is now increasingly critical that our politicians be able to go toe-to-toe with technologists like Brin and Page, who are getting to dangerous levels of de facto influence over the publicsphere, simply because the political establishment cannot keep up.
Though political and social factors began pushing women almost immediately out of the publicsphere, with less than 2% represented in the new Parliament, women are fighting back.