January 29, 1999 – DebatesDebates, the hour-long public affairs program airing on Dallas Community Television (DCTV) sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis, will focus this week on the title topic "Should We Abolish the Capital Gains Tax?"
This week's debaters for the affirmative are: John C. Goodman, President of the NCPA; Ed Rubenstein, Director of Research at the Hudson Institute; and Steve Entin, Executive Director of the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation.
This week's opposing debaters Robert Kuttner, Editor of The American Prospect and William Niskanen of the Cato Institute.
The first show will air on Sunday, January 31, 1999 at 10:00a.m. on DCTV channel 13B. The episode will be rebroadcast on Tuesday, February 2, 1999 at 9:00p.m. on channel 27A, and again on Thursday, February 4, 1999 at 6:00p.m. on channel 13B. DCTV is on TCI Cablevision of Dallas.
WHAT:
DebatesDebates
"Should We Abolish the Capital Gains Tax?"WHERE:
Dallas Community Television.WHEN:
Sunday, January 31, 1999, 10:00a.m.,
Channel 13B
Tuesday, February 2, 1999, 9:00p.m.,
Channel 27A
Thursday, February 4, 1999, 6:00p.m.,
Channel 13B
A Warren Steibel production, DebatesDebates brings together some of America's foremost experts to participate in formal debates of current public policy issues. Warren Steibel is also producer of William F. Buckley's Firing Line.
Each week is devoted to a single issue, which is argued by two teams of debaters; each made up of three experts on the subject.