Everywhere, an ageing population is starting to stretch the capacity of the welfare state.
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They seek to reform the reforms that brought us the welfare state to begin with.
The central dynamic of the welfare state is constant redistribution and political reallocation of resources.
The welfare state ruined low-income communities by subsidizing illegitimacy thus spawning new levels of human pathology.
To keep public debts low and debt ceilings superfluous, radically reduce the welfare state.
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But the welfare state does indeed exist in America and that it does redistributes wealth.
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Such support would make no sense for anyone favoring expansion of the welfare state.
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The debate about the labour agency could also spill into other parts of the welfare state.
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But others might say it was a debate about the nature of the welfare state.
Both main blocs campaigned on a promise of strengthening the welfare state and social justice.
Norman's critique of the welfare state was inspired by a similar belief in individualism.
Moreover, the warfare state is no less expensive and no more affordable than the welfare state.
But dismantling the welfare state, or even slimming it down, is not on her agenda.
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The welfare state, you might say, is in that sense working all too well.
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Europe cannot afford the welfare state it has embraced over the past 50 years.
The reformers are seen as saboteurs of the welfare state, rather than its long-term saviours.
The Medicare drug benefit was the largest expansion of the welfare state in 40 years.
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In other words, what caused our infrastructure to fall apart was the rise of the welfare state.
The welfare state is a good idea, the only question is who can administer it more effectively.
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Paul Ryan is to be congratulated for devising a fabulous framework for skinnying down the welfare state.
The promise of the stock market is fundamentally as fraudulent as the promise of the welfare state.
The welfare state takes care the non-productive forces of society, the old, the sick and the disable.
Yet for a Social Democratic party traditionally wedded to fortifying the welfare state, they constitute a mini-revolution.
Several factors lie behind Mr Fogh Rasmussen's popularity, but the most surprising may be the welfare state.
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It dampens the growth of the welfare state, if it does not lead to its outright implosion.
Can Japan find a way out of the current unsustainable government deficit financing to support the welfare state?
Liberals and compassionate conservatives intent on expanding the welfare state contend we are unwilling to pay our bills.
The welfare state pretends to give citizens back more, in services and benefits, than they pay in taxes.
" The Republicans became, as Jack Kemp used to put it, "the tax collectors for the welfare state.
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As for policies, the alliance is no longer proposing to slash taxes, nor to dismantle the welfare state.
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