“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: U.S. Tax Policy Responses to Looming Fiscal Crisis” will be the topic of the second installment of the Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture Series. The lecture will feature three prominent Washington, D.C. attorneys discussing the nation’s debt and deficit crisis: Lindy Paull (JD 79, LL.M. 80) of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Eric Solomon of Ernst & Young LLP and Hap Shashy of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.

The lecture can be streamed online here: http://video.ufl.edu/main/liveStreams/mediasite.php?id=5678&time_id=31706.

Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston will deliver the lecture, “How Our 20^th Century Tax System is Making Us Poorer.” Johnston was the tax reporter for The New York Times from 1995 through 2008, winning the Pulitzer in 2001 for beat reporting. He is currently a distinguished visiting lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law and a columnist for Reuters on Tax Policy Issues.