Note to RoJo: Stop touching the third rail.
Here's a question: Do Europe's various Welfare States have BUDGETS for their Welfare State programs, or are they run, financially, on the entitlement basis that America's programs have?
It depends on the type of welfare, the type of healthcare system they have, social security.
Public education going through college; is funded out of the general tax revenues for most European Countries. Some countries like the UK, Spain, have healthcare funded out of the general budget as well.
Other countries have multipayer health insurance; regulated private insurance which takes deductions out of your your paycheck, quite like Medicare.