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Sweden is not the first welfare state to collapse of its generousity.
By distorting incentives through taxes, regulations, and a runaway welfare state, both countries discouraged growth in their most productive sectors.
Crisis emerged when world prices of agricultural produce collapsed and surpluses from agriculture could no longer support an inefficient manufacturing industry and growing welfare state.
But the strongest lobbies -- representing trade unions and other urban groups -- could not allow wage cuts and welfare reductions.
Income from manufacturing made it possible to build the Swedish welfare state.
However, the Swedish social democratic governments tried to preserve the competitiveness of large firms by financing the growth of the welfare state without corporate taxes.
As California’s experience with referenda has shown, the public will often vote for contradictory things – for example, lower taxes and more welfare programs, or environmental protection and cheaper gas.
They need fundamental education and welfare reforms.
Has the Italian minister thought for a minute how his government would pay for all its public spending on welfare, and other items, if Italy’s interest rates no longer were subsidized by the ECB?
A successful transition to the next phase of wealth creation – driven by the services sector and knowledge-based industries – will require a more market-oriented approach, in which the state cedes some control over the economy and focuses instead on protecting property rights, administering welfare services, reducing pollution, and eliminating corruption.
But what happens when the welfare of local residents comes into conflict with the wellbeing of foreigners – as it often does?
In the first place, this would greatly add to the welfare of today’s generation, instead of reducing it.
But the size of the “no” vote also reflected the persistent lack of a clear explanation by our politicians of what the EU brings to Europeans in terms of wealth, competitiveness, social welfare and, of course, peace.
Instead of actually doing something constructive about Europe’s essential problem --reforming expensive welfare states to ensure global competitiveness--Europe’s political leaders are hiding behind straw man arguments about “ultra liberal Anglo Saxon models,” and pressuring the ECB to lower interest rates as if European economic weakness were Frankfurt’s fault.
As the economist Joseph Stiglitz puts it, America’s welfare state is, first and foremost, the Fed’s monetary policy.
What they mind is people immigrating to the UK to take advantage of its welfare benefits.
Instead, Cameron emphasized the UK’s enduring desire to be open to the world while restricting EU migrants’ welfare rights.
Specifically, he proposed requiring EU migrants to spend four years working in the UK before becoming eligible for the top-up welfare payments that low-paid British workers receive, and to end benefit payments for migrant workers’ children living in their home country.
If that is the case, reducing immigrants’ welfare benefits will be inadequate.
As a result, many resent welfare recipients and fear competition for jobs – a sentiment that is fueling the rise of populist, anti-EU, and anti-immigrant parties across Europe.
That narrative would be far more powerful than a few tweaks to welfare rights for immigrants.
Moreover, a social union - that is, a common European framework of social insurance systems for health, unemployment and retirement as well as social welfare - is not feasible and so should not be treated as essential to the Union.
Only when a transfer of competencies to the supranational level leads to efficiency gains that exceed the welfare losses due to centralization should national and regional responsibility be replaced by the supranational.
Finally, in July, the Bundestag enacted a controversial law that threatens to reduce welfare benefits for asylum-seekers who refuse to attend “integration courses.”
The swing to the left, to social-democratic welfare states, occurred all over Western Europe.
And the post-war social-democratic welfare state is being eroded more and more every day.
Citizens, it was thought, had to become more self-reliant; government welfare programs were making everyone soft and dependent.
Individual freedoms, human rights and the spirit of anti-collectivism developed as never before, but there was also a burgeoning welfare state, Christian and social democratic parties that understood how strongly prosperity and individual freedoms depend on community.
Those policy areas that citizens consider the most significant – in particular welfare and education – remain under the direction of member states.
- To sustain growth, Spain’s welfare state -- basically pensions and health care -- must be overhauled to increase efficiency and promote fairness.
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