The Grace Commission
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The Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (PSSCC), commonly referred to as The Grace Commission, was an investigation requested by United States President Ronald Reagan, in 1982. The focus of it was waste and inefficiency in the US Federal government. Its head, businessman J. Peter Grace,[1] asked the members of that commission to “be bold” and “work like tireless bloodhounds. Don’t leave any stone unturned in your search to root out inefficiency.”[2]
Contents
1 The report
2 See also 2.1 Other similar commissions
3 References
4 Literature
5 External Links
The report
The Grace Commission Report[3] was presented to Congress in January 1984. The report claimed that if its recommendations were followed, $424 billion could be saved in three years, rising to $1.9 trillion per year by the year 2000. It estimated that the national debt, without these reforms, would rise to $13 trillion by the year 2000, while with the reforms they projected it would rise to only $2.5 trillion.[4] Congress ignored the commission’s report. The debt reached $5.8 trillion in the year 2000.[5][6] The national debt reached 13 trillion after the subprime mortgage-collateralized debt obligation crisis in 2008.
The report said that one-third of all income taxes are consumed by waste and inefficiency in the federal government, and another one-third escapes collection owing to the underground economy. “With two thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by federal government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services [that] taxpayers expect from their government.”[4]
See also
National debt
Federal Reserve System
Public administration
Public administration theory
Other similar commissions
Brownlow Committee 1937
Hoover Commission two commissions, in 1947-1949 and 1953-1955.
National Partnership for Reinventing Government 1993-1998
References
1.^ Gilpin, Kenneth N. (April 21, 1995). “J. Peter Grace, Ex-Company Chief, Dies at 81″. The New York Times.
2.^ http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/31082d.htm Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at a White House Luncheon With the Chairman and Executive Committee of the Private Sector Survey on Cost Control” (March 10, 1982)
3.^ The Grace Report from Defense Technical Information Center
4.^ a b President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, A Report to the President (January 15, 1984)
5.^ http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/faq.html
6.^ http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
Literature
Goodsell, Charles (May-Jun., 1984). “The Grace Commission: Seeking Efficiency for the Whole People?”. Public Administration Review 44 (3): 196–204. doi:10.2307/975482. JSTOR 975482
Hildreth, W. Bartley; Hildreth, Rodger (Spring, 1989). “The Business of Public Management”. Public Productivity Review 12 (3): 303–321. doi:10.2307/3380120. JSTOR 3380120
External Links
Grace Commission List
The formal title is President’s Private Sector Survey and called PPSS
Categories: Presidency of Ronald Reagan
History of the United States (1980–91)
Publications of the United States government
United States national commissions
United States politics stubs
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