Obama's Tax Plan - Austan Goolsbee

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/04/Tax_Policy_At_A_Crossroads

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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[eirefrance]

Yes, look FORWARD... Not backwards to record oil profits by ex-oil man George Dubya Bush. I wonder, is the Economist (magazine) also a Chicago neighbor of Obama? How about Christopher Buckley and Andrew Sullivan?

[dalmatian847]

@rocknruelps ...and he's a fool as well. This is the same genius who in 2007, AFTER the housing bubble had already burst wrote an op-ed piece in the N.Y Times that encouraged banks to continue making sub-prime loans for the sake of "fairness". With this kind of "visionary" is it any wonder why the unemployment rate continues at near 10% and the U.S economy is getting worse, not better.

[rocknruelps]

This guy is a dangerous demagogic.

[FideTheProducer]

I always see somebody criticizing Goolsbee about being a "Skull & Bones" member. So what? You nor I have any idea what Skull & Bones is really about....what is the relevance? Why bring it up? Cut it out.

[rayallin]

@DoubleGauss You took the thoughts right out of my head. This guy is the new chair of economic advisers yet has zero real world experience. He's another scull and bones man from Yale who has mastered how to network his way into power. God help the producers , inventors and business owners that keep this country going in spite of idiots like this clown.

[DoubleGauss]

Another academic-- who's written scores of "peer reviewed papers" in economics journals...but couldn't run a corner grocery store if his life depended on it.

[canadamonster]

nwo

[cosmicfeedbackloop]

touche' eirefrance!

[canadamonster]

skull and bones nut

[ubuibiok]

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