#welfarestate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #welfarestate, aggregated by home.social.
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Private Health Insurance in the United States is a big SCAM.
Why Health Insurance Feels Like A Scam: Paying More And Getting Less:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneehsia/2025/01/13/why-health-insurance-feels-like-a-scam-paying-more-and-getting-less/#universalhealthcare
#medicareforall
#freehealthcare
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"Neoliberalism, as it’s evolved in Finland, has all but negated the possibility for any meaningful or real social progress or of a return to the way that Finland might have existed in the past. Yet the global media imaginary promises otherwise – it torments us with the false hope that another world might indeed be possible."
https://revolpress.substack.com/p/nordic-utopia-deferred-finland-as
#FIpol #Finland #Neoliberalism #WelfareState #NordicModel
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Lying bastards.
« Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims »
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”Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 5-star general & US President)
”Dette er rå klassekamp kamuflert som ’forsvar mot Russland’. Dette er det mest storstilte angrepet på arbeiderklassen siden 1945 og det gjennomføres med stående applaus fra sosialdemokrater.”https://steigan.no/2025/03/ut-med-velferdsstaten-inn-med-krigsstaten/
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"La France Insoumise MP David Guiraud told Jacobin in January that France’s manufactured deficit crisis was part of a premeditated plan to cut social spending.
“French capitalists have never tolerated social security,” Guiraud said then. “When it was created . . . it was hundreds of billions of euros which escaped the logic of the private sector, hundreds of billions of euros which they couldn’t make a profit off of. They know that they’re breaking social security. They know it. I think they do it deliberately for the most part.”
Boosting military spending while trying to maintain “fiscal discipline” will result in the same thing. A column by Janan Ganesh in the Financial Times on March 5 titled “Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state” gave away the game even more directly.
“[T]he welfare state as we have known it must retreat somewhat: not enough that we will no longer call it by that name, but enough to hurt,” Ganesh wrote.
The threat of war is a useful motive.
“Chronic discomfort isn’t enough,” Ganesh elaborated. “An element of real fear has to come in, as perhaps it has now.”"
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/france-eu-defense-spending-austerity
#EU #France #Macron #RadicalCentrism #Rearmament #WarfareState #WelfareState #Austerity #PublicDebt
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"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:
- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.
- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.
- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.
Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/universalism-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid
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6. The strategic plan by the U.S. military-industrial complex is to steer Italy's public spending towards #Arms and #ForeverWars,rather than towards #WelfareState.
This plan goes well beyond #UkraineWar and it
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6. The strategic plan by the U.S. military-industrial complex is to steer Italy's public spending towards #Arms and #ForeverWars,rather than towards #WelfareState.
This plan goes well beyond #UkraineWar and it
will destroy our #PublicHealthSystem & #EducationSystem. -
6. The strategic plan by the U.S. military-industrial complex is to steer Italy's public spending towards #Arms and #ForeverWars,rather than towards #WelfareState.
This plan goes well beyond #UkraineWar and it
will destroy our #PublicHealthSystem & #EducationSystem. -
6. The strategic plan by the U.S. military-industrial complex is to steer Italy's public spending towards #Arms and #ForeverWars,rather than towards #WelfareState.
This plan goes well beyond #UkraineWar and it
will destroy our #PublicHealthSystem & #EducationSystem. -
6. The strategic plan by the U.S. military-industrial complex is to steer Italy's public spending towards #Arms and #ForeverWars,rather than towards #WelfareState.
This plan goes well beyond #UkraineWar and it
will destroy our #PublicHealthSystem & #EducationSystem. -
2. Like it or not, my country had a very good #WelfareState: we had a good #PublicHealthSystem, we had excellent schools and universities, where people like me, from underprivileged background (I'm the first to finish school in my family) had a chance to get first-rate education
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2. Like it or not, my country had a very good #WelfareState: we had a good #PublicHealthSystem, we had excellent schools and universities, where people like me, from underprivileged background (I'm the first to finish school in my family) had a chance to get first-rate education
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2. Like it or not, my country had a very good #WelfareState: we had a good #PublicHealthSystem, we had excellent schools and universities, where people like me, from underprivileged background (I'm the first to finish school in my family) had a chance to get first-rate education
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2. Like it or not, my country had a very good #WelfareState: we had a good #PublicHealthSystem, we had excellent schools and universities, where people like me, from underprivileged background (I'm the first to finish school in my family) had a chance to get first-rate education
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2. Like it or not, my country had a very good #WelfareState: we had a good #PublicHealthSystem, we had excellent schools and universities, where people like me, from underprivileged background (I'm the first to finish school in my family) had a chance to get first-rate education
