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Gene Steuerle, Vice President, Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Eugene Steuerle is Vice President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and a former Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute, co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a columnist for Tax Notes magazine, and a columnist for the Urban Institute under the title The Government We Deserve. Among past positions, he has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987-1989), President of the National Tax Association (2001-2002), chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, Economic Coordinator and original organizer of the 1984 Treasury study that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President of the National Economists Club Educational Foundation, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for the Financial Times. Steuerle is the author, co-author or co-editor of fifteen books and close to one thousand articles, briefs, and Congressional testimonies. Books include Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy (2nd edition), Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century, and Nonprofits and Government. He serves on advisory panels or boards for the Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Independent Sector, the Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the Partnership for America's Economic Success.

Recent Responses

June 8, 2009 05:11 PM

RE: What Is Fiscally -- And Politically -- 'Sustainable'?

Would a firm today decide how to spend every additional dollar it planned on making over the next 100 years?  Should households sign contracts for the houses they will build and trips they will take years into the future based on growing wages?  Or should they wait to make many of those commitments until that future arrives.  I have derived a fiscal democracy index, which shows what most of us know: that over the past half century we have pre-committed an ever rising portion of our expected revenues—leaving current generations and currently elected officials little maneuver room without running deficits…  Read more

December 1, 2008 04:09 PM

RE: Is The Deficit A Threat To A Future Recovery?

In my view, framing fiscal policy as a policy of deficits is misleading. Of course, deficits rise automatically in a recession, and more stimulus is needed not just for macro-economic reasons but because the needs of the population rise more than proportionately with the drop in income. Good stimulus policy has always meant being balanced at some sustainable level over the long term. One can favor larger deficits during some periods and smaller deficits during others. Just because we earn less and pay more bills in our households when we get sick doesn't mean that we still don't have…  Read more

November 10, 2008 08:52 AM

RE: Is Obama's Tax Plan A Good Recession-Fighting Stimulus?

I have worked many years in formulating tax, spending, and budget proposals. These efforts include Treasury service in dealing with campaign proposals from three winning Presidential candidates and as the original organizer and Economic Coordinator of the Treasury 1984 study that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986. One clear lesson stands out: campaign proposals differ--or at least should differ-- from Presidential proposals. The President uniquely has access to a highly qualified career staff that can guide him around pitfalls that are unknown or simply ignrored in the rush of a campaign. Does he wish a more progressive system?…  Read more
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