About the Authors
C. Eugene Steuerle is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, president of the National Economists Club Educational Foundation, and author of a column "Economic Perspective" for Tax Notes magazine. He has worked under four different U.S. presidents on a wide variety of social security, health, tax, and other major reforms, including service both as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and as the original organizer and Economic Coordinator of the Treasury's 1984-86 tax reform effort. He testifies frequently before Congress and has authored over one hundred books, articles, reports, and testimonies. His previous book, The Tax Decade: How Taxes Came to Dominate the Public Agenda, is cited by one historian as "required reading for all who study the development of public policy in the twentieth century."
Jon M. Bakija was a research associate at the Urban Institute specializing in social security issues and public finance. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in economics at the University of Michigan.
