This workforce opt-out, incidentally, was more than twice that of contemporary Greece, the poster child for modern welfare-state dysfunction.
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Simply put, European models do not necessarily work better--and when they do, they have occurred in part due to shifts away from strict welfare-state policies.
Instead, Kohl's government mistakenly imposed an absolutely unaffordable welfare- state structure, including too-heavy taxes, on the former East Germany, making impossible the kind of resurgence West Germany experienced after Erhard's reforms.
Your European welfare-state mentality inevitably biased your conclusions.
His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.
William Beveridge - father of the modern welfare state - was a Liberal politician, after all, and there are elements in our system today historians agree he would not recognise.
They enjoy cradle-to-grave welfare lavished by the oil-rich state and the advantages of what has long been the Gulf's most open and tolerant way of life.
It's a complex picture, but at its core is the high-tax welfare state run amok.
The 1945 election has been seen as showing a broad consensus behind the post-war welfare state.
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But in a market economy some form of non-job welfare or state provision of services is simply necessary.
Partly because Asians save more, work much harder and rely on the family rather than on a European-style welfare state.
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The success of the poldermodel was in fact made possible by a decisive break with the traditional semi-corporatist welfare state.
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After his conviction, debate has raged over claims by some commentators that Philpott was the product of an over-generous welfare state.
Fundamentally, Alaska is a pre-modern welfare state, where the economy is almost purely extractive (with the exception of defence and tourism).
Our incomes are far higher and in some degree we're cushioned against shocks by what remains of the post-war welfare state.
The ANC government has set up Africa's only broad-based welfare state, providing cash benefits to 12.5m people compared with just 3m in 1996.
And it has also made the generously-funded welfare state unsustainably expensive.
But if we continue to move in the direction of becoming a European-style welfare state, it will be impossible to have a good tax system.
Perhaps it is because the things that Canadians most value about their country are its publicly run health service, its European-style welfare state and its tolerance.
Rather, it is whether we want a European-style welfare state.
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One of the central achievements of the 1993 budget deal, the expansion of the earned-income tax credit, was an idea that had long been championed by the right, and it had far less curb appeal for labor-liberals than the promise of a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
Even more devastating, however, is that fact that, for low-income women, the welfare state has come to represent a viable alternative to marriage to the available low-income men.
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Singapore has concluded that we cannot afford European-style state welfare, not because of dogma, but because our circumstances are different.
And while expanding the welfare state promised long-term political gain to Democrats, as FDR and LBJ demonstrated, the fruits of fiscal responsibility were more difficult to discern.
The entire welfare state for working-age adults and their children presumes that government experts can spend your money on you and your children more wisely than you can.
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It also can be said, however, that relative to current and recently lowered expectations of future wealth for the middle class, this is probably offering a higher percentage of redistribution than was the case a few years ago or for that matter during the pre-Thatcher British welfare state.
Mr Osborne has dismissed claims that his welfare reforms mark the end of the welfare state as "shrill, headline-seeking nonsense", arguing instead that they encourage people to work rather than rely on benefits.
But recall that the joint state-federal welfare program has always had "work" requirements.
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