The George W. Bush Presidential Center hosts a conference today on Tax Policies for 4% Growth: Evidence from the States, American History, Markets, and Nations (live webcast here):
In this election year, Americans are deeply concerned about taxes and what they mean to our economic future. At all levels, budgetary emergencies are provoking calls for tax rate increases or new levies, either of which could damage U.S. competitiveness and ultimately our standard of living. Now is the time to look carefully at U.S. states, at other nations, and at historical periods where high levels of growth were achieved and ask the question: What tax system helped produce this growth? That is the focus of this Bush Institute conference, the second part of an exploration of taxes and growth. Among the participants in New York will be:
- George W. Bush
- Sam Brownback (Governor of Kansas)
- Chris Christie (Governor of New Jersey)
- Mary Fallin (Governor of Oklahoma)
- Jim Flaherty (Minister of Finance, Canada)
- Paul R. LePage (Governor of Maine)
- Paul Ryan (Chair, House Budget Committee)
- Steve Forbes (Forbes Media)
- Paul A. Gigot (Wall Street Journal)
- Edward P. Lazear (Stanford University)
- Lawrence B. Lindsey (Lindsey Group)
- Robert E. Litan (Kauffman Foundation)
- Pamela H. Patsley (MoneyGram International)
- John B. Taylor (Stanford University)
