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?
America actually has one of the most progressive income tax structures in the world, while some European nations have fines that get bigger as your income and/or wealth gets larger. Overall, European welfare states, as far as I'm aware, are broadly operated by bureaucracies and funded out of general tax revenues.
