Cosponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center
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
Summary: 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.
