Leslie Carbone

Leslie Carbone is the author of "Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform" (Potomac, 2009). Her writing has appeared in magazines including "The Weekly Standard" and "The American Enterprise", in newspapers from "The Philadelphia Inquirer" to "The San Francisco Chronicle", and on Web sites like "BreakPoint" and "National Review Online". She has appeared on more than 200 radio and television talk shows, been quoted in national newspapers including "The Wall Street Journal" and "USA Today", and spoken at venues across the United States from Tea Parties to college campuses, including Northwestern University, UCLA, and Cornell University. Ms. Carbone has served as Chief-of-Staff to the late Assemblyman Gil Ferguson of California, Executive Director of Accuracy In Academia, Director of Family Tax Policy at Family Research Council, Senior Writer at Koch Industries, Inc., and Speechwriter for former Secretary of Labor of the United States Elaine L. Chao.