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.
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New Approaches to Policy: Hamilton Project Strategy Paper
Achieving Progressive Tax Reform in an Increasingly Global Economyby Jason Furman, Lawrence H. Summers, and Jason Bordoff
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.
Effective Government Discussion Papers
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