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- Ratings
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- Cadence
- 2011
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About Mises Institute
The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, is an educational institution devoted to advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the classical-liberal tradition. Our website offers many thousands of free books and thousands of hours of audio and video, along with the full run of rare journals, biographies, and bibliographies of great economists.
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- Mises Institute
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- First episode
- 1 Jun 2011
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
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6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Government Should Liquidate Itself

6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Social Security Is Just a Transfer Payment from Workers to Retirees

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Government Should Liquidate Itself
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Social Security is a claim on a person's income, any working person. Did this person agree to it? Today it would strike most people as strange even to ask the question. A wartime emergency that prompted the current Tax Payment Act of 1943 has allowed government to loot paychecks before earners even see them. The Act compelled employers to withhold federal income taxes from workers' paychecks and pay them directly to the government on the workers' behalf. Government thus imposed an uncompensated burden on employers. Though the wartime emergency ended, tax withholding didn't. That, too, should surprise no one. […]
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