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| | Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The functional provider of benefits and services may be a central or state government, a state-sponsored company or agency, a private corporation, a charity or another form of non-profit organisation. | | | A second criticism of the welfare state is that it results in high taxes. | | | It should be noted that welfare expenditure refers only to expenditure by the state, and does not encompass other forms of welfare provision (such as occupational welfare). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state
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| | Talk:Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many right-wing regimes have developed welfare states - there are two examples much in the global news in recent months, and a major example in Europe in the mid 20th century that had global military repercussions. | | | In order to have a stable welfare state, you need money to provide for the welfare services, which is taken from citizens in the form of taxes. | | | High income tax or corporation tax has a depressing effect on the economy whereas high land tax has a stimulating effect, so when you're talking about high levels of taxation it's important to describe which type of taxation you mean. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Welfare_state
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| | BRIA(14:3) Welfare, How Welfare Began, History of, Reform, Welfare to Work, Europe, Sweden, Welfare in Europe |
| | Welfare should be a state government responsibility so that each of the 50 states will be free to design its own qualifications and levels of support. | | | After deciding which benefits should be available in the United States, group members should then decide how to finance them: federal income tax, state income tax, employee payroll tax, employer payroll tax, sales tax, some other tax, or a combination of taxes. | | | Welfare should be a national government responsibility so that needy single mothers of dependent children, elderly, and disabled persons in every part of the country can get support when they meet certain qualifications. |
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http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria14_3.html
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| | The Welfare State |
| | For example, Wilensky's work on welfare spending shows that the main determinants are the age of the system and the structure of the population. | | | In addition to federal and state activity, there are extensive private, mutualist and corporate interests in welfare provision. | | | Less clear, but probably even more important, is the general concern to ensure that public expenditure on welfare is directly compatible with the need for economic development and growth. |
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http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/wstate.htm
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| | TCS Daily - Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism |
| | Moreover, it would be subject to payroll taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and state income taxes. | | | Economists agree that in another generation the share of GDP required by the Welfare State will exceed the share of GDP of total tax revenues today. | | | If we had a larger exemption, we would have a more generous bleeding-heart welfare state, but we would not have enough money to fund the rest of the government. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092903A
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| | Monthly Review: The state of welfare: United States 2003 |
| | The creation and expansion of a national welfare system took place between the 1930s and the 1970s, initially as a result of a convergence of interests between a militant labor movement and reform-minded capitalism during the depression, and later as a consequence of the civil rights movement. | | | In the late 1970s, the United States spent about 14 percent of the total federal budget on welfare, compared to 24 percent for comparable nations in the West. | | | The collapse of the left and the liberal wing within the Democratic Party left a vacuum that was quickly filled by neo-conservative ideologues and by "welfare reformers" within both parties. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_5_55/ai_108882470
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| | World Socialist Movement - State: Welfare |
| | The welfare state became more difficult to finance out of sustained economic growth at exactly the time the burdens of poverty and unemployment placed increasing demands on it. | | | The private sector is generally the profit-making sector of the capitalist economy and the often-repeated message of governments everywhere is that the proportion of national income commandeered by the state must be reduced if profits are to be restored to adequate levels. | | | total public deficit (central and local government spending plus the separate social welfare account) from an estimated 5% of GDP this year to 3% by the end of 1997. |
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http://www.worldsocialism.org/wsm-pages/welfstat.html
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| | Socialism and The Welfare State |
| | Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. | | | Moreover, this total state must be controlled by the equivalent of Plato's guardians, a Party of ideocrats that incarnates rationality in an administrative apparatus. | | | That is, their policies, overall, were governed not by pragmatic considerations of state- or nation-building, but by overriding meta-historical goals-Socialism for the first and Aryan Weltmacht for the second. |
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http://lamar.colostate.edu/~grjan/socialismprimer.html
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| | BBC NEWS Business The future of welfare reform |
| | The overall size of the welfare state outlived the Conservatives, but its nature changed, with greater emphasis on means testing and the involvement of the private sector (such as pension provision). | | | The first minister of welfare reform, Frank Field, clashed with the chancellor over the extension of means tested benefits. | | | The means-tested (or tax credit) benefit system - which the chancellor judges is all Britain can afford - is the latest attempt to reconcile a desire for the state to ensure that everyone has a "national minimum" income with the lack of resources to pay for a universal benefit. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4720727.stm
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| | ZNet Commentary: State of Welfare |
| | In the UK it was 'guaranteed minimum standards', in France 'national solidarity', in Sweden it was a comprehensive social provision with egalitarian, socialist aspects to it, in former Western Germany (Bundesrepublik) it was something in between. | | | What Western European states merely do, is shifting their agenda. | | | The report concluded that "the development in Germany (...) was such that it led to a rise in social ousting and a growing deficit in wealth equity, concerning almost every sphere of life". |
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http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-11/24noll.cfm
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| | The Theology of the Welfare State by Gary North |
| | This system of compulsory welfare creates widespread dependence on the state, raises taxes on the public, and then is overwhelmed by the costs. | | | The healer state will become the killer state when its budget gets tight. | | | I have devoted my career to a seemingly fruitless task: to develop exegetically a biblical case against the welfare state. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north397.html
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| | The Welfare State We're In |
| | It is expected to amount to £136 billion this financial year, accounting for over a quarter of all government spending. | | | The welfare state has created an insurance policy that does not provide what it claims. | | | The education chapter of The Welfare State We're In makes the point that the government's belief that sending more and more people to university will improve economic performance is flawed. |
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http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com
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| | Samuelson: Protecting the Welfare State - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com |
| | His conclusion: so far the welfare state is a "free lunch." That is, high taxes and benefits (for unemployment, health and retirement) haven't depressed economic growth. | | | The accumulating costs of big welfare states may be one cause along with others (say, poor entrepreneurship). | | | For liberals: it matters how societies pay for welfare programs; "soak the rich" taxes can be self-defeating by discouraging investment and risk-taking. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4408847
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| | The Real Injustice in New Orleans: The Welfare State's Assault on the Productive Individual by Ron Pisaturo -- ... |
| | Last but not least on the welfare parade is environmentalism, which expands the welfare state to include care for non-humans, and the cost of which is incalculable in its prohibition on innovation. | | | The financial expense of the welfare state is really much more than this when one considers the financial effects of welfare-state regulations. | | | Compare that to $1,100 and under $1,000 per person in the Bushes-governed Gulf-coast states of Texas and Florida, respectively; yet the federal income taxes paid by individuals in Louisiana is roughly $1,000 per capita less than in those other states. |
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http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4414
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| | Oppose the Federal Welfare State |
| | Increasing the states' ability to identify fraudulent unemployment claims is a worthwhile public policy goal. | | | Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government given the power to level excessive taxes on one group of citizens for the benefit of another group of citizens. | | | I also question the wisdom of imposing as much as $11 billion in unfunded mandates on the states at a time when many are facing a fiscal crisis. |
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http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr021303b.htm
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| | TCS Daily - The FlexDollar Welfare State |
| | However, one possible reason that people under-estimate the cost of the welfare state is that much of that cost has been shifted into the future. | | | My own view is that at some point we should confront and overcome the public's desire for middle-class government benefits, because they require heavy taxes and impose large economic costs. | | | The taxes that will be required tomorrow to meet the promises that we make with Medicare and Social Security today are staggering to contemplate. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=020404A
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| | Privatization vs. Welfare State: Israel's Economic Crisis |
| | Netanyahu and his backers talk economics, stating their case in terms of credit ratings, inflation, growth and budget deficits. | | | To the Left, a large public sector is a powerful driving force (note, for example, the place of an effective, well funded education system in guaranteeing economic success in a modern, high-tech world). | | | It represents communal, democratic control of the economy, provides for the equitable distribution of income and prevents excessive profiteering by a small, wealthy minority. |
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http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1851
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| | The Conservative Welfare State by Anthony Gregory |
| | One reason for the misunderstanding is the rhetorical cloak of the Republican Party as a party of smaller government, freer markets, and rugged individualism. | | | Liberals make a different kind of error, of course: they laughably assert that Bush has cut spending or naïvely assume that he wants to destroy Social Security. | | | To understand this helps libertarians to better recognize the nature of government interventionism as it occurs under Republican administrations. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory67.html
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| | Amazon.com: A Life of One's Own : Individual Rights and the Welfare State: Books: David Kelley |
| | The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. | | | Kelley's thesis is that, when the concept of rights is extended to the provision of social welfare, the inevitable result is empowering those who demand benefits from the state over those who provide goods and services in an economy. | | | Kelley provides a convincing case for the idea that private charities, and privately run insurance, are actually the most effective way of dealing with the needy. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188257771X?v=glance
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| | BBC - History - The Welfare State - Never Ending Reform |
| | In the 19th century Britain's welfare was characterised by voluntary provision, with mutual and friendly societies delivering a whole range of benefits. | | | Local authorities and voluntarily run hospitals, together with a national system of panel doctors were financed from health insurance contributions, which were set by the state and collected through mutually owned societies. | | | BBC - History - The Welfare State - Never Ending Reform |
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| | NCSLnet: Welfare Reform |
| | Federal EITC: What Legislators Need to Know: The federal earned income tax credit lifts more families out of poverty than any other federal program. | | | Click here to read summaries of significant legislation passed in 2004. | | | Click here for updated information and a brochure on the basics of EITC. |
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http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/welfare/welfare.htm
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| | How The Welfare State Works |
| | The debate over specific Welfare programs has generally focused on the alleged need of the prospective client, the most efficient way to meet that need in a contemporaneous time frame, and the effect of the proposed program on budgets and taxes. | | | We pay taxes for programs which directly compete against ourselves for services we need as badly as does the Welfare client; and the costs reflect that competition. | | | America before World War I remained a bold land, where the primary responsibility of the individual was the individual and his family; the primary responsibility for the individual was the individual and his family; and the primary unit of Government was the sovereign State in which that individual resided and to which he owed allegiance. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/welfare.htm
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| | Economic Success Clearinghouse (formerly Welfare Information Network) |
| | Economic Success Clearinghouse connects you to resources about effective policies, programs and financing strategies that help low-income and working poor families. | | | Workforce development ~ Services to help individuals connect to the job market, develop work-related skills, sustain employment, and advance in the labor market | | | Welfare ~ Cash assistance for low-income families with dependent children |
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http://www.financeproject.org/irc/win.asp
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| | H-SHGAPE Discussion: Women and the Welfare State |
| | Family, Economy and State: The Social Reproduction Process Under Capitalism. | | | "Feminist Struggles with the Canadian State: 1966-1988," Resources in Feminist Research 17 (3, September 1988): 5-9. | | | Policy Studies in Canada: The State of the Art. |
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| | The Intellectual Activist |
| | All of this is related, incidentally, to the incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. | | | In a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters—not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency. | | | It is a perfect summary of the 40-year history of the welfare state and its public housing projects. |
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http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
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| | Idaho Department of Health & Welfare |
| | Health and Welfare's handbook about our services, customers, and budgets is available online. | | | At the Department of Health and Welfare our services are delivered through "Any Door." No matter which door you enter for assistance, we are organized to meet your needs. | | | We offer programs that deal with complex social, economic and individual issues. |
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http://www.healthandwelfare.idaho.gov
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| | OpinionJournal - The Western Front |
| | Instead, after decades and billions of tax dollars have been poured into big government programs, one out of four people in the Big Easy were still poor. | | | For decades city, state and federal officials poured good money after bad into public housing and other programs. | | | But the welfare state had left the poor stuck in the mud long before that. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110007250
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| | Publications - Comparative Welfare State Data |
| | Several new variables were added and most variables were updated to 2000.. | | | This update includes the original Comparative Welfare States Data Set, and updates and additions by Stephens, Brady, and Beckfield. | | | In the initial stage of data collection in 1989-92, it was the intention of the project directors to collect a wide range of indicators of welfare state development, its causes, and its outcomes on an annual basis for the period 1945-89. |
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http://www.lisproject.org/publications/welfaredata/welfareaccess.htm
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| | Welfare state lives - The Washington Times: Commentary - February 19, 2005 |
| | But did the Founding Fathers ever intend the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? | | | Section 8 begins, "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States," and then specifies these powers. | | | Crockett eloquently explained to his fellow members that the Constitution did not allow such appropriations of public funds, however, they could each reach into their pockets to give the widow any amount they desired. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050218-082725-7400r.htm
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| | Welfare Caseloads: Index |
| | Welfare Caseloads Decline/New Grants to Promote Job Retention (August 20, 1998) | | | Percentage of the US Population on Welfare By Year Since 1960 | | | State by State Welfare Caseloads since 1993 (Families) |
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| | Immigration and the Welfare State |
| | Welfare programs and minimum wage laws create an artificial market for labor to do the jobs Americans supposedly won’t do. | | | Our current welfare system also encourages illegal immigration by discouraging American citizens to take low-wage jobs. | | | This creates greater demand for illegal foreign labor. |
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http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst080805.htm
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| | International Seminar on Welfare State Systems |
| | Their papers dealt with themes ranging from general theoretical aspects of welfare state system to the specific situations prevailing in many countries across the world. | | | A 3-day international seminar on Welfare State Systems: Development and Challenges was held on 9 – 11 April 2001 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. | | | After three days intense deliberations on the welfare state systems across the world, the seminar participants made a unanimous Declaration, containing ‘Twelve Theses’. |
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http://www.geocities.com/bvivekanandan
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| | H-State Discussion Network |
| | H-State encourages scholarly discussion of welfare state and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids. |
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