Tax Policy at a Crossroads

Advisors from the Obama and McCain camps--Austan Goolsbee from the University of Chicago and John Taylor from Stanford University, respectively, lay out the candidates' tax plans and duel over what they would mean for the American economy and the average family. Leonard Burman of the Urban Institute-Brookings Institute joint Tax Policy Center and Joel Slemrod, Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research referee. For further highlights on this panel, read the live blog.

Panelists

Leonard Burman, Director, Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center

Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Barack Obama

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Former Director, Congressional Budget Office and Senior Advisor to Senator John McCain

Joel Slemrod, Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research

Moderator: Howard Gleckman, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute

When

Thursday, September 4, 2008
12:15-1:30 p.m.

Where

Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Parking + Directions

More Information

For more information and disability accommodations, please call (612) 625-5340 or
e-mail cspg@umn.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

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