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Stephen Slivinski
Former Director of Budget Studies
Stephen Slivinski is an expert in tax and budget issues at the state and federal levels, and former director of budget studies at the Cato Institute. Prior to that, he worked as a senior economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. Slivinski has served as director of tax and budget studies for the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a research associate at the James Madison Institute in Florida. He is the author of Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government, a scathing look at how the Republican Party, once the paragon of fiscal conservativism, embraced Big Government and become even more irresponsible with taxpayer money than the Democrats. He is also coauthor (with Stephen Moore) of Cato's "Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors," and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and National Review Online, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Slivinski holds a master's degree in economics from George Mason University.
Books and Book Chapters
"Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government," (Nelson Current, 2006)
Cato Studies
"The Corporate Welfare State: How the Federal Government Subsidizes U.S. Businesses," Policy Analysis no. 592, May 14, 2007.
"Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2006," Policy Analysis no. 581, October 24, 2006.
"Dispelling the Myths: The Truth about TABOR and Referendum C," by Michael New and Stephen Slivinski, Briefing Paper no. 95, October 24, 2005.
"Ripe for Reform: Six Good Reasons to Reduce U.S. Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers," by Daniel Griswold, Stephen Slivinski and Christopher Preble, Trade Policy Analysis no. 30, September 14, 2005.
"The Grand Old Spending Party: How Republicans Became Big Spenders," Policy Analysis no. 543, May 3, 2005.
Opinion and Commentary
"Uncle Sam: Venture Capitalist," TCSdaily.com, June 20, 2007
"Bill of Wrongs," American.com, March 21, 2007
"The "Beltway Cut"," Reason (Online), February 12, 2007
"A Reality Check on Earmark Reform," Business Week, January 22, 2007
"Pataki: The Fall of a 'Rising Star'," New York Post, October 25, 2006
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"We're from the Government, and We're Here to Help You Buy a House," December 6, 2007
"Why a Government Spending Freeze is Incomprehensible to Bureaucrats ," November 1, 2007
"Bush IS a Big Spender, Pt. 2," October 26, 2007
"The Future of the GOP?," October 10, 2007
"Refereeing the Cheney-Greenspan Debate," September 19, 2007
Events
""John Stossel Goes to Washington"," August 24, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"The Federal Budget Outlook," February 14, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government," August 15, 2006 [Book Forum]
"The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money," July 18, 2006 [Book Forum]
"The Federal Budget Outlook," February 13, 2006 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
Multimedia
"Omnibus Prime: More Than Meets the Eye" featuring Stephen Slivinski, December 20, 2007 [Flash Audio, 08:32]
"Twisting ARMs" featuring Stephen Slivinski, December 13, 2007 [Flash Audio, 07:35]
"King Corn" featuring Stephen Slivinski, November 28, 2007 [Flash Audio, 06:01]
"The GOP's Troubling Populism" featuring Stephen Slivinski, October 16, 2007 [Flash Audio, 07:37]
"Greenspan's Lament" featuring Stephen Slivinski, September 19, 2007 [Flash Audio, 09:08]
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