Steven J. Entin
Graduating class: 1965
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1998
Hall of Fame Category: Lifetime Achievement
Steve was a very active FHS student serving as his class president his sophomore year, an officer for the French Club, Spray, Honor Society, American Field Service, Huttlestonian, and class executive board. [n addition. Steve held a straight "A" average and was a National Merit Scholar.
After his graduation from FHS Steve went on to Dartmouth College (1969) where he took a BA in Mathematics and was Phi Beta Kappa. He did graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago, earning a MA in 1975.
Steve went on to work as an aide lo Senator Robert Taft, Jr. (1975-76) on the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress. From 1976-1981 he continued his work as a staff economist and was involved in the development of the Kemp-Roth tax proposal and the economic plank for the 1980 Republican Convention.
From 1979-1983 Steve served as an instructor at George Mason University in undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics.
Steve worked as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, Department of the Treasury from 1981-88 on the enactment of tax indexing and the modification of the Social Security Trustees Report for the Reagan Administration.
From 1988 to date Steve has served as Resident Scholar at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, a 'think tank' that is looking into alternative revenue systems that would be simpler and more conducive to savings, investment and economic growth. In 1998 he was appointed to the position of Executive Director of the Institute.