Wednesday May 10, 2006
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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.
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
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.
Charles Curran, professor of human values at Southern Methodist University author of "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian"