William G. Gale is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of Brookings and the Urban Institute. In 1991-92, he served as senior economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush. He has written columns for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and CNN and appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC, and NPR.