Events & exhibits

Tax Policies for 4% Growth: Evidence from the States, American History, Markets, and Nations

Changing the economic conversation in America so that it focuses on growth and what causes it.

Event

April 11, 2012

12:00 am

The New-York Historical Society

Symposium

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.

Schedule

Sessions

  1. April 11, 2012

    Opening Remarks: Mark Langdale, President, George W. Bush Foundation

  2. April 11, 2011

    Welcoming Remarks: James K. Glassman, Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute

  3. April 11, 2012

    Remarks by Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media

  4. April 11, 2012Watch ↗

    Opening Welcome to the Region: Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey

  5. April 11, 2012

    Session I: State Governments and Taxes

    Moderator

    • Albert W. Niemi, Jr., Dean, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University

    Panelists

    • Ike Brannon, Director of Economic Policy and Congressional Relations, American Action Forum; George W. Bush Institute Fellow
    • Travis H. Brown, State Tax Reform Advocate, Pelopidas, LLC; Blog Author, yourtaxcode.com
    • W. Michael Cox, Director, O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University; Former Federal Reserve Chief Economist
    • Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, RealClearMarkets.com; Monthly Columnist, Tax Notes
    • E.J McMahon, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute’s Empire Center for New York State Policy
    • Stephen Moore, Senior Economist, The Wall Street Journal; Founder, the Club for Growth; Senior Economics Fellow, Cato Institute
  6. April 11, 2012

    Session II: Governors’ Summit

    Moderator

    • Lawrence Kudlow, Host, The Kudlow Report, CNBC

    Panelists

    • The Honorable Mary Fallin, Governor of Oklahoma
    • The Honorable Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee
    • The Honorable Paul LePage, Governor of Maine
    • The Honorable Robert K. Steel, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, City of New York
  7. April 11, 2012

    Breakout Session: The Federal Government’s Record on Taxes: the 1920s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s

    Moderator

    • The Honorable Karl Rove, Member, George W. Bush Institute Advisory Board

    Panelists

    • The Honorable Allan B. Hubbard, CEO, E&A Industries, Inc.
    • The Honorable Lawrence B. Lindsey, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Lindsey Group
    • John A. Prestbo, Editor and Executive Director, Dow Jones Indexes; Chairman, Dow Jones Index Oversight Committee; George W. Bush Institute Fellow
    • Amity Shlaes, Director, 4% Growth Project, George W. Bush Institute
    • Joseph J. Thorndike, Director, Tax History Project at Tax Analysts; Visiting Scholar in History, University of Virginia; George W. Bush Institute Fellow
  8. April 11, 2012

    Breakout Session: Nations and Taxes

    Moderator

    • Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, CNBC’s Closing Bell; Anchor/Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo

    Panelists

    • Christopher E. Bergin, President and Publisher, Tax Analysts
    • Shikha Dalmia, Senior Analyst, Reason Foundation
    • The Honourable James Flaherty, Minister of Finance, Canada
    • Scott A. Hodge, President, The Tax Foundation
    • Roberto Salinas León, President, The Economist’s Mexico Business Forum; Scholar, Cato Institute
    • David Malpass, President, Encima Global; Chairman, GrowPac
  9. April 11, 2012

    Introduction of Paul Ryan: Paul A. Gigot, Editorial Page Editor and Vice President, The Wall Street Journal

  10. April 11, 2012Watch ↗

    Keynote Address: The Honorable Paul Ryan, U.S. Representative, Wisconsin, and Chairman of the House Budget Committee

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    Breakout Session: Markets and Taxes

    Moderator

    • Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes

    Panelists

    • The Honorable Don Evans, Chairman, George W. Bush Foundation; Chairman, Energy Future Holdings
    • Robert E. Litan, Vice President for Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; George W. Bush Institute Fellow
    • Cameron Smith, General Counsel, Quantlab Financial, LLC
    • Bernard Weinstein, Associate Director, Maguire Energy Institute, Southern Methodist University; George W. Bush Institute Fellow
    • Brian S. Wesbury, Chief Economist, First Trust Advisors L.P.; George W. Bush Institute Fellow
  12. April 11, 2012

    Breakout Session: Let’s Get Real: Business Leaders

    Moderator

    • The Honorable John Engler, President, Business Roundtable; Former Governor of Michigan

    Panelists

    • David C. Chavern, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
    • Doug DeVos, President, Amway
    • E. Floyd Kvamme, Partner Emeritus, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
    • Pamela H. Patsley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MoneyGram International, Inc.
    • Rex A. Sinquefield, Retired Co-founder, Dimension Fund Advisors
  13. April 11, 2011

    Session V: Blitz Solutions

    Moderator

    • The Honorable James K. Glassman, Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute

    Panelists

    • The Honorable Sam Brownback, Governor of Kansas
    • Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
    • Kevin A. Hassett, Director, Economic Policy Studies and Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
    • The Honorable Edward P. Lazear, Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics; Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow (by courtesy); Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
    • The Honorable Lawrence B. Lindsey, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Lindsey Group
    • Alan D. Schwartz, Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, L.L.C.
    • John Stossel, Host, STOSSEL, Fox Business Network
    • John B. Taylor, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University