Steve Simpson interviews ARI fellow Don Watkins about his new book, RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance, and about the myths surrounding Social Security.

Topics covered:

• The origin of Social Security
• How Social Security undercuts self-reliance
• The “trust fund” myth
• Social Security as welfare, not “insurance”
• How Social Security undermines economic security
• The nature of the debt draft
• The “right” to Social Security
• How to dismantle the welfare state

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Image: Don Watkins