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Senator Obama is promising voters more progressive tax policies. Senator McCain vows to cut corporate tax rates. The plans of either candidate could add to the nation's nearly ten trillion dollar debt. How McCain and Obama differ on tax policies.
Alan Viard, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute and author of "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)"
Bob Davis, senior economics writer, Wall Street Journal
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, chief economic aide to Senator John McCain
Jason Furman, economic advisor to Senator Barack Obama
Amanda Ripley, award-winning journalist for Time magazine, retraces the human response to some of the most devastating disasters of our age, from the explosion of the Mount Blanc munitions ship in 1917 to the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.
Amanda Ripley, covers homeland security and risk for "Time."