…welfare, is about 73%. Now, long time readers may recall I’ve been doing this sort of analysis for years, though of course I’ve been looking at tax rates that maximize…

…Germany or the Nordic model in Scandinavia, which prioritize social welfare and aim to reduce inequality. In addition, governments can invest in education, healthcare, and infrastructure to provide more opportunities…

…does not work and has no compensation income. They are otherwise “equal,” right? (except that investor taxpayer fits the description of those who vituperate about lazy welfare recipients who sit…

…retirement age are receiving “welfare.” But the voters don’t like the idea of a permanent “welfare establishment” as the “normal” way for workers to get through their retirement years. So…

…amount of raised taxes can bail out the banks and still pay the day-to-day running expenses of our welfare state. The famed ‘Celtic Tiger’ boom economy was always a high-risk,…

…slices so they put medicaid and welfare together as “social programs” (welfare might mean tanf plus food stamps plus suplementary security income) and put foreign aid in with defence. People…

…workers can’t afford to retire, or “means testing” it, or even raising the “cap”, so that Social Security becomes just another welfare program and can be killed off later. Moreover,…

…“government waste” (the new justification for the attack on the welfare state) in the context of ongoing high rates of unemployment is bound to lead to further economic weakness AND…

…that it is insurance. Judge it as welfare and you fail to understand that the workers pay for it themselves. It was deliberately designed NOT to be welfare. I have…

…welfare state. It is argued that the impact of Chretien government’s cuts in public spending allowed Canada to get through the Asian crisis with little damage and to go on…