What Donalds Proposes

The Problem He Says It Solves

Historical & Policy Context

Evidence, Limits & Open Questions

The strongest argument for the proposal is institutional: information that technically exists but is difficult to find imposes a real cost on public oversight. Searchable standardized records can lower that cost. The strongest test, however, is not the number of records uploaded. It is whether data are timely, comparable across jurisdictions, machine-readable, complete, and connected to enforcement when entities fail to report.