5:36 p.m., April 26, 2010----An Inconvenient Tax, a feature-length documentary chronicling the history of the income tax and the controversial issue of tax reform, will be screened at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 4, in Room 130 Smith Hall on the Newark campus.

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The free public screening is sponsored on the campus by the University's Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship.

According to the filmmakers, the issue encompasses more than $2 billion in federal tax revenues and the lives of everyone in the country. Featured in the documentary are interviews with Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Steve Forbes of Forbes Inc.; Joseph Thorndike of the Tax History Project; Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas; and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, among others.

This nonpartisan documentary looks at the many ways Congress uses the tax code to achieve political goals that have nothing to do with raising revenue, as well as current proposals to fix the tax code.