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Jonathan Williams: Competition's Driving State Tax Reforms BTN PODCAST: Political leaders in Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and North Carolina are working toward the elimination of their states' income taxes. Jonathan Williams of the American Legislative Exchange Council works with legislators in those and other states around the country. He discusses income taxes and the reasons some states' leaders want them abolished.	Steve Stanek: Marketplace Fairness Act ITTN PODCAST: Steve Stanek speaks about the Marketplace Fairness Act on the Nationally Syndicated Lars Larson Show.
Greg Drukala: Online Education, Apps, and Microlearning SRN PODCAST: Microlearning may be an unfamiliar term, but you’ve probably done it. Find out what it means, and how it relates to the universe of online learning, learning games, and education apps with Greg Drukala, co-founder and chief engineer of KnowledgeFox. He and School Reform News Managing Editor Joy Pullmann discuss how adults use microlearning in their career, why online education is taking a far longer time to get into schools than into the workplace, and about the people developing apps for education.	Benjamin Domenech: Scott Walker's Medicaid solution HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech discusses Scott Walker's Medicaid solution.
James Taylor: The future of energy and environment policy In this best of podcast, James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News, talks with Jim Lakely about the future of energy and environment policy in a second term for Barack Obama. Taylor and Lakely cover the Interior Department’s decision to put 1.6 million acres of public land off limits to oil and gas exploration, the future of the fracking revolution, green energy projects, the Environmental Protection Agency, and cap and trade proposals floating around Washington.	Yuri Maltsev: To Prosper, We Must be Free FIRE PODCAST: Professor Yuri Maltsev has won international accolades for his work for freedom and prosperity. He is the only economist who ever advised top government officials in both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. He joins us to discuss freedom and government.