Giving the first speech at the Rhode Island Statewide Coalition’s Winter Meeting, Gary Sasse, Governor Carcieri’s Director of the Department of Administration, spoke about tax policy (stream entire speech):

• RISC Chairman Harry Staley’s introduction: stream, download
• Sasse’s opening remarks — we compete for capital and labor, and tax policy affects our success: stream, download
• The reason for a Tax Policy Workgroup was our lack of competitiveness — we were “taking money out of the private sector and putting it in the public sector in a very uncompetitive way”: stream, download
• The need for reform to prepare for the end of the recession: stream, download
• The tax reform in the governor’s current budget — increase exemption of estate tax, phase out and eliminate the corporate tax (“That is the perception change we need. That is a bold step.”), decrease personal income taxes (“Every income group, up to a half million dollars, pays lower average income taxes under the proposed system.”): stream, download
• Closing remarks: stream, download