The Candidates’ Spending Plans: Do They Add Up?
September 19, 2008

Sponsored by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:30-10:30 a.m. ET. (light breakfast will be served) Katharine Graham Conference Center, Urban Institute 2100 M Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

Panelists:

• Howard Gleckman, editor, TaxVox, Tax Policy Center (moderator)
• Demian Brady, Senior Policy Analyst for the National Taxpayers Union Foundation
• Jim Horney, director, federal fiscal policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; former deputy Democratic staff director, Senate Budget Committee
• Maya MacGuineas, president, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, New America Foundation; former adviser, 2000 McCain for President campaign
• Rudy Penner, senior fellow, Urban Institute; former director, Congressional Budget Office

Candidates McCain and Obama have economic platforms that call for trillions of dollars in tax cuts over the next decade, according to the Tax Policy Center. This panel looks at whether their spending plans would offset their largesse on the tax side, or whether they would just dig the nation’s financial hole deeper.

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The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center does not endorse political candidates. This session is part of a series on the presidential candidates’ tax and budget plans.

The Tax Policy Center’s most recent analysis of the McCain and Obama tax plans is available here, along with The Tax Policy Briefing Book: A Citizens’ Guide for the 2008 Election and Beyond and much more.