Stephen Slivinski is an expert in tax and budget issues at the state and federal levels. Most recently, he worked as a senior economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. Slivinski has served as director of tax and budget studies for the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a research associate at the James Madison Institute in Florida. Slivinski has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He is coauthor (with Stephen Moore) of Cato's Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and National Review Online, among others. Slivinski holds a master's degree in economics from George Mason University

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