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Media Highlights TV • April 28, 2014 

# Michael D. Tanner gives the lecture, “The Welfare State as a Pyramid Scheme” at the European Students For Liberty Conference in Berlin 2014 

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

Former Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

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