Television Interviews

• September 16, 2009 - "Housing Hope or Hoax?", CNBC, Street Signs
  Kim Rueben begins speaking at 2 minutes and 24 seconds.
  Discussing whether the housing market is fixed, with CNBC's Diana Olick; Kim Rueben, Tax Policy Center; Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors; and CNBC's Erin Burnett.
• August 26, 2009 - "Bernanke Tapped for Second Term", NBC , Nightly News
  William Gale begins speaking at 2 minutes and 36 seconds.
  Health care, as it being discussed right now, involves increasing spending now and reducing it later and there is going to be more hesitance to increase spending now given these higher deficit numbers.
• May 28, 2009 - "Value Added Tax", Fox , Live Desk
  Leonard Burman begins speaking at 2 minutes and 41 seconds.
  Debate over possibility of VAT in the U.S.
• May 26, 2009 - "Flat Tax=Economic Growth", CNBC, Call of the Wild
  Leonard Burman begins speaking at 1 minute and 25 seconds.
  Debating whether a flat tax system could restore the U.S. economy, with Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, and Leonard Burman, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
• May 12, 2009 - "Closing Estate Tax Loopholes", Fox Business,
  Roberton Williams begins speaking at 22 seconds.
  Roberton Williams of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center on the Obama Administration's plan to close loopholes in the estate tax.
• Apr. 30, 2009 - "Obama marks 100 days as President", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Lateline
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  Barack Obama has marked 100 days in office saying he is optimistic about the future despite being sobered by the slow pace of change.
• Apr. 15, 2009 - "Where Our Taxes Go", CNN
  Leonard Burman begins speaking at 35 seconds.
  You work all year for it, and then comes April 15th when you settle up the bill with Uncle Sam. Do you know where your tax money goes?
• Apr. 2, 2009 - "Economy Could Lead to More Tax Evasions", WUSA9.com, Evening News
  Howard Gleckman begins speaking at 1 minute and 21 seconds.
  As widespread lay-offs force people to take cash-paying jobs, some experts raise questions about the underground economy.
• March 22, 2009 - "Obama Tax Plan and Small Business," MSNBC.com, Your Business
  Rosanne Altshuler begins speaking at 1 minute and 14 seconds.
  Some businesses are being faced with the reality of higher taxes under President Obama's budget plan.
• February 26, 2009 - "Tale of Two Families," ABC News,
  Rosanne Altshuler begins speaking at 1 minute and 44 seconds.
  Two families' lives will change with Obama's stimulus spending.
• Jan. 28, 2009 - "What's in the Stimulus for Workers", CBS, Evening News
  Roberton Williams begins speaking at 1 minute and 06 seconds.
  For restaurant owner Tom Glascow, and for most Americans, the new stimulus package serves up a variety of tax cuts, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.
• Jan. 28, 2009 - "Stimulus Report Card: Is It the Right Fix?", ABC News, World News with Charles Gibson
  Rosanne Altshuler begins speaking at 1 minute and 08 seconds.
  Economists are engaged in their own debate about which parts of President Obama's economic package are really stimulative, which are social policy and which will swiftly create jobs and encourage spending.
• Nov. 3, 2008 - "Candidates' Tax Plans", FOXBusiness News, Election 2008
  Eric Toder begins speaking at 10 seconds.
  Eric Toder discusses Candidates' tax plans.
• Oct. 30, 2008 - "Doing The Math On Candidates' Tax Plans", CBS News, Evening News:
  TPC mentioned at 06 seconds.
  CBS News asked the non-partisan Tax Policy Center to calculate what individuals' tax burdens would be under each of Barack Obama and John McCain's proposed plans.
• Oct. 24, 2008 - "Obama And McCain Spar Over Tax Plans", CBS4.com
  TPC began mentioned at 1 minutes and 21 seconds.
  The non-partisan Tax Policy Center went digging through the details of the proposals and speeches and concluded, "Senator McCain's tax cuts would primarily benefit those with very high incomes.
• October 21, 2008 - "Issues ‘08: Taxes and Spending ." WBUR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook , CNN
  William Gale begins speaking at 43 seconds.
  Joining us from Washington is William Gale. He is vice president and director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, which has analyzed both candidates’ tax plans.
• October 14, 2008 - "Keeping them Honest: Fixing the Economy." Anderson Cooper, 360 daily podcast, CNN
  Roberton Williams begins speaking at 12 minutes, 44 seconds.
  Roberton Williams discusses the two presidential candidates' tax plans.
• Oct. 16, 2008 - "Reality Checking "Joe The Plumber", CBS News, Evening News:
  Eric Toder began speaking at 1 minutes and 01 seconds.
  Joe Wurzelbacher was launched into the national spotlight after being used as an example in a debate. Wyatt Andrews does a Reality Check on how each candidate would affect Joe "The Plumber."
• Sep. 28, 2008 - "The Truth about Taxes", Fox News, America's Election HQ
  Leonard Burman began speaking at 2 minutes and 34 seconds.
  John McCain has been campaigning with an overall anti-tax proposal. On the flipside, Barack Obama is calling for more taxes on the rich and lower taxes for the majority of taxpayers.
• Sep. 22, 2008 - "The Trillion Dollar Tab: candidates debate who will pay," NBC, Nightly News with Brian Williams
  Leonard Burman began speaking at 1 minute and 31 seconds.
  The Candidates disagree on how much to tax the wealthiest one percent of Americans.
• Sep. 15, 2008 - "How Did We Get Into This Financial Mess?," WUSA9, WUSA9
  Howard Gleckman began speaking at 1 minute and 26 seconds.
  With Monday's news of take-overs, bail-outs, and bankruptcies, many Americans are trying to figure out both how we got here and what it means to the overall economy.
• Sep. 15, 2008 - "The Truth About McCain And Insurance Taxes," CBS Evening News, Reality Check
  Leonard Burman began speaking at 1 minute and 03 seconds.
  It's one of the most explosive and important political charges of the election: "He wants to tax your health benefits," Barack Obama said. Obama's charge was that that John McCain wants to tax the health insurance benefits Americans buy through employers.
• September 4, 2008 - "America's Future: Tax Policy at a Crossroads," Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Republican National Convention
  Howard Gleckman begins speaking at 4 minutes, 04 seconds, Leonard Burman begins speaking at 4 minutes, 38 seconds.
  America's Future: Conversations about Politics and Policy at the Republican National Convention.
• Sep. 4, 2008 - "The Ins and Outs of McCain's Tax Plan," ABC, Good Morning America
  Roberton Williams began speaking at 1 minute and 03 seconds.
  Last year, the Joneses paid $2,700 in federal income taxes, and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center calculated the family would save $700 on its tax bill under McCain's proposals.
• September 2, 2008 - "'McCain-onomics' Put to the Test in Northern Virginia," PBS, Online Newshour with Paul Soloman
  TPC mentioned at 8 minutes, 51 seconds, With the Republican convention underway in St. Paul, the NewsHour's economics correspondent Paul Solman speaks with Nancy Pfotenhauer, an adviser to Sen. John McCain's campaign, about the GOP presidential hopeful's economic policies and how they could impact everyday Americans.
• Aug. 27, 2008 - "Meet the Joneses, Part I: Taxes," ABC, Good Morning America
  Roberton Williams began speaking at 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
  For the first in a multipart series, "Good Morning America" has scoured the country in search of a few representatives of the typical American family to see how the current administration's tax policies have affected their lives and how a new president might change things.
• Apr. 30, 2008 - "Gas Tax Holiday Plan Provides Fodder for Campaigns," PBS, Online NewsHour
  Leonard Burman began speaking at 3 minutes and 43 seconds.
  Presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz., have raised the idea of suspending the federal gas tax for the summer. A tax policy expert explains whether a gas tax holiday is politically or economically feasible.
• Mar. 3, 2005 - "Consumption Tax," PBS, Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
  Leonard Burman began speaking at 3 minutes and 43 seconds.
  Presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz., have raised the idea of suspending the federal gas tax for the summer. A tax policy expert explains whether a gas tax holiday is politically or economically feasible.