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Steven Titch: Internet Sales Tax ITTN PODCAST - In this "Best of" Heartland podcast, Steven Titch, policy analyst for the Reason Foundation, discusses internet sales tax and the marketplace fairness act.	Vicki Alger: How Rising College Costs Hurt Families and Society In this "Best of" Heartland podcast, Many government efforts to make U.S. colleges more affordable and accessible has actually made them more expensive and inaccessible, writes Vicki Alger in a new report for the Independent Women’s Forum. Alger joins the podcast to discuss her report, the moral hazard of student loans, and the state of college finances. She’s an IWF senior fellow, director of their Women for School Choice Project, and a contributor to School Reform News.
Brian Balfour: More Jobs, Bigger Paychecks BTN PODCAST - North Carolina has the region's highest income tax burden, high unemployment, and slow personal income growth. The Civitas Institute in Raleigh, N.C., proposes ending the state's personal and corporate income taxes and franchise tax and replacing them with a consumption-based tax that research shows could boost employment and incomes. And politically, the timing could be right, says the Civitas Institute's Brian Balfour.	Taylor Smith: Rebuttal to a PWC Report ECN PODCAST - Jim Lakely talks with Taylor Smith, policy analyst at The Heartland Institute, about a Policy Brief he wrote with James M. Taylor titled "PricewaterhouseCoopers' 'Too Late' Report: Poor Science, No Practical Solutions." The brief is a rebuttal to a PWC report from November that predicts at least 2 degrees Celsius warming – and as much as 6 degrees – in the “near future.”
Vince Vernuccio: Income Growth, More Jobs in Right-to-Work States FIRE PODCAST - Michigan has become the 24th state to enact "right-to-work," a law that says people may not be forced to join or pay dues to a labor union. Vince Vernuccio of the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy tells us why the home state of the powerful United Auto Workers union has embraced labor freedom instead of forced unionism.	David John: Social Security HCN PODCAST - Ben Domenech talks with David John of The Heritage Foundation about Social Security and entitlement reform.