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Obama's Tax Plan - Austan Goolsbee

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2008 · News & Politics

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Austan Goolsbee, economics professor at the University of Chicago and senior economic advisor to the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential campaign, compares Obama's and John McCain's respective tax plans.

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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 - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

Austan Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation,Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts,and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. He was until recently the lead economic advisor to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

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