New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made available to the public include the following items on tax policy.
International Corporate Tax Rate Comparisons and Policy Implications, December 28, 2012
Reform of U.S. International Taxation: Alternatives, December 27, 2012
Distributional Effects of Taxes on Corporate Profits, Investment Income, and Estates, December 27, 2012
Tax Deductions for Individuals: A Summary, December 20, 2012
Funding and Financing Highways and Public Transportation, December 26, 2012
The Debt Limit: History and Recent Increases, December 27, 2012
No one will be surprised if we end up with a continuing resolution to push our shutdown deadline out past the midterms, so the real question is what else will they get done this summer?
Rebuilding public participation starts with something simple — treating the public not as a problem to manage, but as a source of ingenuity government cannot function without.
If the government wants a system of learning and adaptation that improves results in real time, it has to treat translation, utilization, and adaptation as core functions of governance rather than as afterthoughts.
Coordination among federal science agencies is essential to ensure government-wide alignment on R&D investment priorities. However, the federal R&D enterprise suffers from egregious siloization.