The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Romina Boccia, the Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation, on Social Security and how it affects Millennials. Topics covered include:

• The true costs of Social Security
• The enormous tax hikes that will be required to pay for Social Security in the years ahead
• How Social Security redistributes income from the young and poor to wealthy and old
• How Social Security deprives us of the freedom to plan our own lives

Other Resources:

• Romina Boccia’s Heritage Foundation bio and publications
• RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance — Don Watkins
• The Debt Dialogues [Episode 2]: Charles Blahous on Social Security

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