Taxpayer's Toolkit: DO ECONOMISTS MAKE GOOD POLITICIANS? featuring...

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Do Economists Make Good Politicians?
-or-
Do I Wish I Didn't Know, Now, What I Didn't Know, Then?

featuring TOM MEANS,
SJSU Economics Professor &former Mayor of Mountain View

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tom Means is Director of the Council for Economic Education at San Jose State University. A faculty member there since 1981, he teaches graduate seminars in microeconomics, econometrics, and managerial economics. His research on the output of local government services has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and presented at numerous national conferences.

Professor Means completed his Ph.D. in 1983 at U.C.L.A., where he studied Labor Economics, Public Finance, Econometrics and Business Forecasting. As a research assistant, he worked on several state and national forecasting models. He brings to his classroom a unique blend of theoretical and applied econometric and forecasting experience.

In 2008, Dr. Means served as Mayor of Mountain View, and he just completed his second (and last) city council term in December, 2012. His current research focuses on land-use issues, such as so-called affordable housing programs (for example, his study for the Independent Institute: Below-Market Housing Mandates as Takings: Measuring their Impact [http://www.independent.org/store/policy_reports/detail.asp]) and fiscal impact analysis.

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COST:
Free for SVTA members (including those who join or renew at the door)
$10 individual non-member
$15 non-member couple

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All are welcome! We especially invite members of neighborhood associations and other community action organizations. Representatives of related organizations are invited to come and introduce themselves to our members. Just RSVP and we'll see whether we have room for you on this month's agenda!

We encourage you to arrive at 6:15 or 6:30 P.M. for a no-host dinner and socializing with fellow taxpayers. To help us keep the cost of the facility down, please deposit your dinner receipt in the bucket marked “SVTA” at the cashier’s desk.

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ABOUT SVTA’S THIRD THURSDAY TAXPAYER TOOLKIT MEETINGS: SVTA is pleased to present keynote speakers in a forum for you, the taxpayer, to come together and share information on specific tax issues and concerns. We invite you to learn with us, as we strengthen ourselves with tools that we, as your taxpayer association, can use to fight for and protect your rights and interests as Silicon Valley taxpayers


MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THESE UPCOMING TAXPAYER TOOLKIT EVENTS:
March 21: Tyler Shewey, Tax Attorney, on the new changes in tax law
April 18: Steven Greenhut, author of Plunder! and Vice President of Journalism at Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity

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