Pizza & Principles - Libertarian Debates: Billionaires' share of federal taxes.

Join us in the private dining area of the Charlotte Meridian Place Hawthorne's New York Pizza and Bar off Monroe Rd to watch the live-streamed Soho Forum debate between Natasha Sarin and Adam Michel\*\*.\*\* The only cost is the food or drinks you purchase, so come eat, drink and fellowship with us. The debate starts at 6:30, but come early to eat some killer pizza and get to know the local libertarian party. The Resolution: ### *Billionaires should pay a higher share of federal taxes.* For the affirmative: Natasha Sarin is a professor of law at Yale Law School and the president and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale. She served as the deputy assistant secretary for economic policy and later as a counselor to Secretary Janet Yellen at the U.S. Treasury Department, where her work focused on narrowing the gap between the taxes owed by the American public and those collected by the IRS. For the negative: Adam Michel is the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, where he focuses on analyzing the economic and budgetary effects of taxation in the United States. He served as deputy staff director at the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, as a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and as program manager for the Spending and Budget Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.