Meade Klingensmith

Would ending deferral on overseas profits have dangerous consequences, like making U.S. corporations uncompetitive or driving them to move their headquarters’ overseas? Remapping Debate’s inquiries have found that such concerns appear to be overstated, and that the U.S. has a range of policy options that could mitigate or nullify those effects.

If the U.S. barred companies from deferring taxes on overseas profits, the sky, it turns out, would not fall.

A second look at the phenomenon by which health care policy has come to be dominated by a single-minded desire for cost control, while concerns about maximizing the quality of care have been downgraded or ignored entirely.

How have recent developments affected the views of Senators on filibuster reform? Where do they stand now? We asked them directly, but it's really hard to get them to put their cards on the table.

For those aged 45 to 54, there is a range of policy options — beyond the fatalistic prescription to “just work longer” — that has the potential to materially enhance retirement security, if adopted quickly. For those aged 55 to 64 the outlook is bleaker, though there are steps that could be taken to ameliorate the worst of the anticipated impacts on the poorest retirees. Despite the availability of a potential solution for the 45- to 54-year-old group and of an improved safety net for the 55- to 64-year-old group, no one we spoke with suggested that the political will to effect such changes exists today.

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