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Wednesday May 10, 2006

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10:00Tax Policy

Guest host: Steve Roberts

Congress has agreed to extend the President's tax cuts and allow them all to expire on the same day in 2011. Guest host Steve Roberts talks with a panel about how this agreement will affect individuals, the economy, and budget projections, with a look at the likely political ramifications.

Guests

Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition

Dan Mitchell, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation

Robert Greenstein, founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

William Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute and former acting chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers

11:00Charles Curran: "Loyal Dissent" (Georgetown)

Guest host: Steve Roberts

A controversial Catholic moral theologian discusses how the church has changed in the last 50 years, the importance of academic freedom, and the need for structural change within the Catholic community.

Guests

Charles Curran, professor of human values at Southern Methodist University author of "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian"

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