Publications

Research and development is the foundation of technological advance, the engine that helps deliver miracle drugs, timesaving devices and the cutting-edge technology that generates new jobs and economic progress.

Consumer groups and the media are putting pressure on public officials to allow U.S. citizens to reimport drugs from foreign countries like Canada. This report concludes reimportation programs or price controls would have a dramatic negative impact on drug development in the United States and, because it is home to a significant research center, on the economy of Massachusetts.

When President Bush called for a simpler, fairer tax system in his party convention acceptance speech, the audience roared.

The fastest growing program in state budgets threatens the fiscal health of states, and the physical health of poor people.

As Congress returns from its August flight from the political swamp on the Potomac, one of the issues it needs to resolve is Internet taxation.

On first thought, these three topics — President Bush, health care and taxes — don’t seem to go together.

As unrecognizable as VoIP might be as a term today, it will be on everyone’s lips, and in everyone’s homes, tomorrow – if regulators are forced to keep their acquisitive hands off of it.

The Bush-Cheney campaign has rolled out a new campaign ad attacking John Kerry’s positions on taxes.

About 125 years ago, Gregor Mendel created artificial plant hybrids.

A recent study by the Congressional Budget Office on tax rates and burdens has set off the usual dust-up between Republicans and Democrats.