Rise & Fall [Episode 4]: Let’s Talk About Sweden

POST by The Editors | View All Posts July 13, 2017

Is Sweden really the socialist utopia that it is often portrayed as? Is it a socialist nightmare? It’s far away, it’s cold and for Americans, it’s a country surrounded by economic myths. Here’s the real story.

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End the Debt Draft: How the Welfare State Is Exploiting Millennials [Video]

POST by The Editors | View All Posts October 21, 2014

If nothing is done, the bill for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will bankrupt Millennials and their children. But support for these programs is strong among the elderly and the young alike. In this talk delivered as part of ARI’s Road to a Free Society tour, best-selling author Don Watkins argues that this support is based on a handful of myths, and that if Americans knew the truth about the welfare state, they would not want to save it — but abolish it.

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Myths of Social Security [Video]

POST by Carl Svanberg | View All Posts August 29, 2014

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.

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