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Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?

Administrative Law & Regulation Practice Group

May 7, 2008

The architects of our nation took great care to constitute a limited government founded on personal responsibility and individual liberty.  Do our internal revenue laws promote or undermine these founding principles?  Are they an appropriate vehicle for implementing sweeping social policy?  These and other questions will be the focus of our conference.

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9:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Welcome and Panel I: Health Care: How Our Tax Laws Affect How Health Care is Paid for and Delivered

Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?

Topics: Administrative Law & Regulation • Healthcare
National Press Club
529 14th St. NW
Washington, DC 20045

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The Honorable Eileen J. O'Connor of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and former Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, opened The Federalist Society's 2008 Tax Policy Conference titled "Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?" at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2008.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Hon. Eileen J. O'Connor, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and former Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, United States Department of Justice

Panel I: Health Care: How Our Tax Laws Affect How Health Care is Paid for and Delivered

  • Mr. Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute
  • Mr. Robert B. Helms, American Enterprise Institute
  • Prof. Mark V. Pauly, University of Pennsylvania - Health Care Systems Department
  • Moderator: Prof. Amy Monahan, University of Missouri - Columbia

Speakers

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Panel II: Charity: Whether and, if so, How Our Tax Laws Affect Charitable Activities, Religious Institutions, and Free Speech

Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?

Topics: Administrative Law & Regulation • Culture • First Amendment • Philosophy • Religious Liberty • Free Speech & Election Law • Religious Liberties
National Press Club
529 14th St. NW
Washington, DC 20045

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The Federalist Society's 2008 Tax Policy Conference titled "Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?" was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2008.

  • Mr. Lee E. Goodman, Esq., LeClairRyan
  • Mr. Kevin Hasson, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
  • Ms. Anne D. Neal, American Council of Trustees and Alumni
  • Moderator: Mr. Matthew Vadum, Capital Research Center

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12:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Panel III: "Tax Expenditures": The Wisdom and Efficacy of Using the Tax Code to Implement Social Policy

Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?

Topics: Administrative Law & Regulation • Culture • Founding Era & History • Politics
National Press Club
529 14th St. NW
Washington, DC 20045

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The Federalist Society's 2008 Tax Policy Conference titled "Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?" was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2008.

  • Prof. Lily Batchelder, NYU School of Law
  • Mr. Leonard E. Burman, Director of the Tax Policy Institute, Urban Institute
  • Mr. Stephen J. Entin, The Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
  • Moderator: Hon. Eileen J. O'Connor, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and former Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, United States Department of Justice

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