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Free the Economy podcast: Paying for mass transit with Marc Scribner

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In this week's episode we cover California's minimum wage for fast-food workers, overturning the FCC's universal service fee, and pushing back on rude customers in Japan. Our interview this week is with Marc Scribner, senior transportation policy analyst at the Reason Foundation. We talk about mass transit, organized labor, construction costs, and whether the US should try to be more like Europe.

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Join us next week when our guest will be National Review editor Andrew Stuttaford.

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