This is complicated stuff and international tax experts will surely identify problems with the Grubert-Altshuler plan.
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Dr. Altshuler said he favors offering research participants a variety of options about how much to share.
Grubert and Altshuler have devised what many think is an elegant solution to both the competitiveness and the base erosion problems.
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As my Tax Policy Center colleagues Rosanne Altshuler, Katie Lim, and Bob Williams have written, balancing the budget by raising taxes on high-income people alone is unrealistic.
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The proposal was devised by Rosanne Altshuler of Rutgers University (a former director of the Tax Policy Center) and Harry Grubert, a career economist at the Treasury Dept.
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Ahead of Katrina coming ashore, Brown's deputy chief of staff, Brooks Altshuler, dismissed the idea of the White House creating an interagency crisis group to manage the government's response.
But the Grubert-Altshuler paper makes the conversation much richer.
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Harvard Medical School's David Altshuler says he is "quite worried" that companies will rush to offer gene tests before it is clear what can be done for people who get worrisome results.
Grubert and Altshuler figure the rate on investment in a low-tax country would rise to a negative 4.4 percent under the per-country version, far higher than the negative 24 percent under current law.
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And on the other side of the ledger, as Rosanne Altshuler, Katie Lim, and I showed in a 2010 paper, tax increases big enough to tame fiscal deficits by themselves are probably both politically infeasible and economically unwise.
David Altshuler, co-chair of the steering committee for the 1000 Genomes Project, said the people who enrolled in the study were told that all steps would be taken to keep them anonymous, but that technological advances one day might make it possible to identify them.
Mr. Gates, who had been looking for a way to connect the dots between his guests, incorporated the test into his show after querying some of his mentors, including David Altshuler and Mark Daly of the Broad Institute, a genomic research center affiliated with Harvard and MIT.
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