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Senator
Max Baucus (D-MT) is
the ranking Democrat of the Senate Committee on Finance.
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Former
Senator John B. Breaux (D-LA) is
Co-Chair of the Tax Reform Commission (2005).
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Senator
Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) is
Chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation and Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Finance.
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Former
Senator Connie Mack (R-FL) is
Chair of the Tax Reform Commission (2005).
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Senator
William M. Thomas (R-CA) is
Co-Chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
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Robert
J. Carroll is Deputy
Assistant Secretary (Tax Analysis) at the Department of the
Treasury. He is the reporting authority for the Office of Tax
Analysis and assists in establishing and implementing the
analytical research of the Office, including its studies and
reports.
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Helen
Hubbard is a member of
the Tax Legislative Counsel at the Department of the Treasury.
She supervises the attorneys, accountants, and taxation
specialists who provide legal advice and analysis relating to
tax legislation and regulations. She is responsible for
providing the Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy) with legal advice
and analysis regarding tax legislation and regulations.
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Eric
M. Engen is a Resident
Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He researches
Social Security, tax and budget policy, household saving,
pension funds, mutual funds, and the U.S. economy. He was a
former section chief and senior economist at the Federal Reserve
Board. He has also spoken in front of the House Ways and Means
Committee.
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R.
Glenn Hubbard is a
Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He
researches tax policy and healthcare. He was formerly Chairman
of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. He served as
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the
Treasury from 1991-1993.
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Grover
G. Norquist is
President of Americans for Tax Reform, a coalition of taxpayer
groups, individuals, and businesses opposed to higher taxes at
both the federal, state, and local levels. A native of
Massachusetts, he has been one of Washington's most effective
issues management strategists for over a decade. He also serves
on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association of
America and the Board of Directors of the American Conservative
Union.
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Chris
Edwards is Director of
Tax Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. He has over a decade
of experience in tax and budget policy. Before joining Cato,
Edwards was senior economist on the Joint Economic Committee
examining taxation, Social Security, and entrepreneurship
issues. From 1994 to 1998, Edwards was a tax consultant and
manager with PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he focused on revenue
estimation, tax modeling, tax reform, and international economy
issues. From 1992 to 1994, he was an economist with the Tax
Foundation and examined federal, state, and local tax and budget
policies.
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William
A. Niskanen has served
as Chairman of the Cato Institute since 1985, having previously
been acting chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic
Advisors. He is an expert in many areas of public policy
including defense, education, healthcare, taxes, trade, and
regulation. One of the most highly regarded microeconomists in
the nation, he has also served as director of economics at Ford
Motor Company and as a defense analyst for the Penatagon, the
RAND Corporation, and the Institute for Defense Analyses.
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Stephen
Slivinski is Director
of Budget Studies at the Cato Institute. An expert in tax and
budget issues and the state and federal levels, he is co-author
of Cato's Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors. Most
recently, he worked as a senior economist at the Tax Foundation
in Washington, D.C. Prior to his return to Washington, Slivinski
served as Director of Tax and Budget Studies at the Goldwater
Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He has also worked as a research
associate at the James Madison Institute in Florida.
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Bill
Beach is the Director
of the Center for Data Analysis and John M. Olin Senior Fellow
in Economics at the Heritage Foundation. He was instrumental in
developing the econometric models Heritage uses to estimate, in
detail, how proposed tax changes will likely affect individuals,
families, and various business sectors, as well as the overall
national economy.
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Stuart
Butler is Vice
President of Domestic and Economic Policy Studies at the
Heritage Foundation. He has played a major role in shaping the
policy debate on a wide range of domestic issues from healthcare
and Social Security to welfare reform and privatization of
government services. The National Journal named him in
the 1980s as "one of 150 individuals outside government who
have the greatest influence on decision-making in
Washington."
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Alison
Fraser is Director of
the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the
Heritage Foundation. Fraser oversees nine Heritage analysts and
researchers who produce studies on a wide range of economic
issues.
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Dan
Mitchell is the McKenna
Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Heritage Foundation.
Heritage's chief expert on tax policy and the economy, Mitchell
advocates supply-side tax cuts and fundamental tax reform.
Mitchell is also the nation's leading opponent of tax
harmonization schemes developed by the Brussels-based European
Union, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, and the United Nations.
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Alan
J. Auerbach is Robert
D. Burch Professor of Economics and law at the University of
California, Berkeley, and Director of the Robert D. Burch Center
for Tax Policy and Public Finance. He is a member of the
National Tax Association.
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Scott
A. Hodge is President
of the Tax Foundation. He is recognized as one of the nation's
top thinkers on tax policy, the federal budget, and government
spending. Over the past twenty years, Hodge has been a leader in
many successful efforts to change public policy. During the
1990s, he led the campaign to include the $500 per-child credit
and capital gains tax cuts in the Contract with America. These
tax cuts were the eventual centerpieces of the 1997 tax bill and
the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. Hodge has been the creative
force behind the Tax Foundation's Putting a Face on America's
Tax Returns project and State Business Tax Climate Index,
two programs aimed at changing the terms of the tax debate at
the federal and state level.
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Len
Burman, PhD. is
Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center and a Senior Fellow at the
Urban Institute. Burman served as Treasury Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Tax Analysis from 1998 to 2000, where he developed
major proposals access to savings for low-income families. He
teaches at Georgetown University and was a senior analyst at the
Congressional Budget Office from 1988 to 1997. He is the author
of The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the
Perplexed.
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William
Gale, PhD. is
Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center and Arjay and Frances
Fearing Miller Chair at the Brookings Institute. He was an
assistant professor of economics at the University of California
at Los Angeles and senior economist at the Council of Economic
Advisors. He is also co-editor of Economic Effects of
Fundamental Tax Reform, Rethinking the Estate and Gift Tax, The
Evolving Pension System, and Private Pensions and Public
Policies.
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Peter
Orszag, PhD. is
Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center and Joseph A Pechman Senior
Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institute. He has
served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy, Senior Economist on the President's Council of Economic
Advisors and economic advisor to the Russian government. He was
the co-editor of American Economic Policy in the 1990s.
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Gene
Steuerle, PhD. is
Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center and a Senior Fellow at the
Urban Institute. He served as Treasury Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Tax Analysis from 1987 to 1989. Between 1984 and
1986, he served as Economic coordinator and original organizer
of of the Treasury's tax reform effort. An author of ten books,
he has written The Tax Decade and co-authored The
Government We Deserve. He is President of the National Tax
Association and has written regular columns for Tax Notes
and The Financial Times, as well as a retirement policy
column for the Urban Institute. Steuerle was also an architect
of President Reagan's tax overhaul in 1986.
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Joel
Slemrod is Paul W.
McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public
Policy at the University of Michigan Business School, and
Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics.
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