welfare state

Definitions

1. A social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, unemployment benefits and social security.
2. A country in which such a system operates.

Equivalents

Examples

“In order⟳ to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut⟳ so that the rich may pay⟳ less tax. […]”

“Wagenknecht […] argues further that a policy of high migration enforces a minimal welfare state that is ‘cheaper for the upper and upper middle classes in comparison to a real welfare state, but it is not an attractive project for the middle and lower middle groups. Thus, if one wants to remove⟳ support⟳ for social provisions, this is exactly the way to do it’.”

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