Tax Policy in the Obama Era, a conference today sponsored by UCLA School of Law and the Tax Policy Center today at UCLA:
9:00-9:15 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:15-10:45 am Tax Policy in an Era of Growing Inequality
Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley, Economics), Income Tax Reform and Inequality
Len Burman (Tax Policy Center), The Rising Tide Tax System: Indexing the Tax System for Changes in Inequality
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law & Economics), Income Inequality and Local Government
Commentator: Elizabeth Garrett (USC Law)
11:00 am-12:30 pm Dimensions of Fiscal Policy in the Post-Bush Era
George Yin (Virginia Law), Temporary-Effect Legislation, Politicial Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint (PowerPoint)
Hillary Hoynes (UC Davis, Economics), Tax Policy for Low Income Families: The EITC
Kirk Stark (UCLA Law), In Search of a Post-Partisan Fiscal Federalism
Commentator: Pamela Olson (Skadden Arps)
12:30-2:00 pm Hon. Rep. Xavier Becerra (U.S. House of Representatives, Member of Committee on Ways and Means)
2:00-3:30 pm Policy Options Amid Economic Crisis
Steve Bank (UCLA Law), Tax Policy During the Great Depression
Dan Halperin (Harvard Law), Retirement Income Security After the Fall
Daniel J. B. Mitchell (UCLA School of Management), When Luck Runs Out: Leadership – Present and Past – and the California State Budget
Commentator: Joseph Bankman (Stanford Law)
3:45-5:15 pm Politics, Public Opinion & the Possibility of Tax Reform
Larry Bartels (Princeton), Public Opinion and the Politics of Tax Policy: From Bush to Obama (PowerPoint)
Ed McCaffery (USC Law, Cal Tech), Behavioral Dimensions of Tax Reform
Rosanne Altshuler (Tax Policy Center), Lessons from the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
Commentator: Ellen Aprill (Loyola Law)
