Issue: Effective Government

Government has a limited but essential role in creating the conditions for growth in which all Americans can share. The Hamilton Project will propose ways to increase government productivity, reform government regulation so that it efficiently guides private firms when necessary without unduly hampering them, and reduce government expenditures and increase revenues to ensure that the Project's proposals do not exacerbate an already dangerous fiscal imbalance.

Events

• Meeting the Challenge of the Global Economy: Trade, Economic Security and Effective Government. A Hamilton Project paper release and discussion. July 25, 2006.
  
  
• Reforming Taxation in the Global Age. A two-part forum and release of a new set of policy proposals that address the challenges of reforming the U.S. tax system. June 12, 2007.
  
  
• Missing Markets: Fostering Market Based Solutions to Major Risks. A two-part forum and release of a new set of policy proposals focusing on what the government can do to foster market-based solutions to major risks. June 5, 2008.

New Approaches to Policy: Hamilton Project Strategy Paper

There is broad agreement about many of the shortcomings of our current tax system, but little consensus about the solution. To make progress, lawmakers will, at a minimum, have to come together in good faith and agree on a broad approach. In an effort to define a common approach, this strategy paper offers six broad principles that reflect the new challenges facing our tax system in the twenty-first century.

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Markets are the central institution of the economy, allowing people to buy and sell goods and services in a manner that potentially makes everyone better off. Markets can also play a role in reducing the risks that individuals face by allowing them to purchase insurance such as health insurance, life insurance, or property insurance. But in certain situations, markets that could potentially help to mitigate or reduce the risks faced by society and individuals are underutilized or even nonexistent, leaving households to face some of the largest risks without any protection.

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Effective Government Discussion Papers

All Hamilton Research and Commentary

• Reforming Corporate Taxation in a Global Economy: A Proposal to Adopt Formulary Apportionment
  by Reven Avi-Yonah and Kimberly Clausing
  
  
• Taxing Privilege More Effectively: Replacing the Estate Tax with an Inheritance Tax
  by Lily Batchelder
  
  
• Rehabilitating the Business Income Tax
  by Ed Kleinbard
  
  
• The Simple Return: Reducing America's Tax Burden Through Return-Free Filing
  by Austan Goolsbee
  
  
• How Can American Government Meet Its Productivity Challenge?
  by Nancy Killefer
  
  
• Aligning Patent Presumptions with the Reality of Patent Review: A Proposal for Patent Reform
  by Douglas Lichtman
  
  
• Stabilizing State and Local Budgets: A Proposal for Tax Base Insurance
  by Akash Deep and Robert Lawrence
  
  
• Financing Losses from Catastrophic Risks
  by Kent Smetters and David Torregrosa
  
  

All Hamilton Research and Commentary

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