Property taxes are in the news this week - partly because Monday was the deadline for Texans to pay their 2009 property tax bills, and partly because eliminating the property tax has become an issue in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Research that the Texas Public Policy Foundation commissioned last spring on eliminating the property tax has been cited in both televised debates and several news stories. On this week's Texas PolicyCast, The Honorable Talmadge Heflin, director of TPPF's Center for Fiscal Policy and former chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee, summarizes the research and argues that replacing the property tax with an expanded sales tax is not only feasible but would be beneficial to the Texas economy.