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Cato Video • June 24, 2015 

# *Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis*

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Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently — but that doesn’t mean that the problem has gone away. The simple truth is that there is no way to address America’s debt problem without reforming entitlements. Michael Tanner discusses entitlement spending reform and his new book *Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt and the Entitlement Crisis*.

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##### [Michael D. Tanner](/people/michael-d-tanner)

Former Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

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