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  • How do you think public media should be funded? Commentator Tucker Carlson says cut federal funding and let the listeners pitch in.

  • Commentator Vijay Vaitheeswaran says America's culture of creativity and innovation beats out China's state-run capitalism.

  • Commentator Leah Ingram is facing six years of paying college tuition for her two daughters. She has a suggestion to the government to help middle-class parents like herself.

  • Commentator Randall Kenneth Jones says it's not only good for morale, it's good for the bottom line too.

  • Apr 13, 2012

    What’s the rush?

    San Franciscans have the dubious honor of being the best tax procrastinators of 2011. One S.F. citizen talks about her lax attitude to filing.

  • Going to a wedding can be fun but going to multiple weddings in one year can get expensive. Marketplace Public Insight producer Angela Kim has been to her share of weddings and discusses her experience.

  • Commentator P. J. O'Rourke says the sheer complexity of the tax code makes it one giant con.

  • Commentator Robert Reich says the continued specter of 'too big to fail' compels nothing less.

  • Commentator Melissa Chadburn says paying your taxes shows you value your community.

  • Commentator Frances Frei says automation needs to improve the customer experience, not frustrate it.

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