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, authorized in Executive Order 12369 on June 30, 1982.
[1] The survey's focus was on eliminating waste and inefficiency in the United States federal government.
In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services that taxpayers expect from their government.
"[5] Political science professor Charles T. Goodsell read through 45 of the 47 volumes of the commission's findings, and noted that the methodology appeared to give much power to the corporate experts whom the commission employed in interviewing federal employees; he also noted the potential for conflicts of interest.
It also critiqued several recommendations as vague or lacking in data, and found disparities between agencies on the relevance of certain performance metrics.