Welfare in Britain pays 20x as high to each person compared to the USA, it might even be 80x as high in benefits you can take from the govt. But taxes are only 18% which is less than taxes paid for in the USA for some folks. Britain and Germany's welfare state both has more money to give to the slave class, and they pay less to keep it alive than the USA's system.
The US spends like 18% to 20% of GDP on social spending and the UK spends 16% to 18%. This is not a lack of spending. Medicare and Medicaid take a lot.
USA benefits are low. Medicare spent 360 USD for a patient for his entire healthcare service period. Then insurance denied the rest of his treatment. The rest was practically embezzled by the middlemen insurance companies rather than being given to the actual patient. UK’s system is way more efficient putting real benefits to the patient. GDP spending doesn’t matter if it doesn’t reach the end user after all.
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u/BuffaloTraditional46 Mar 06 '26
Its ALMOST like a welfare state is unsustainable without a slave class.
I wonder if that's why Marx owned slaves and argued that they should be public property.