Yet it looks as if Medicare is not welfare, at least not for the poor.
We will have a lot to say about the scheme in the weeks ahead, because, like it or not, taxes are vitally important determinants of national even social welfare, not to mention of the lifestyle and mentality of individuals.
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In fact, the current crisis would not have occurred if past euro-zone governments had financed their bloated bureaucracies and overly generous welfare systems not by borrowing against the savings of future generations but instead by asset sales.
Singapore has concluded that we cannot afford European-style state welfare, not because of dogma, but because our circumstances are different.
The promotion of social welfare does not include participation in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any political candidate.
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With out all this welfare, not one, I repeat, not one wind machine industrial complex or solar industrial complex would be built.
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After all, it would be in the best interests of baseball if teams on welfare did not extract money from their franchises.
For Labour, shadow chancellor Ed Balls said it supported efforts to get people back to work and believed welfare should not be open-ended.
He told the Times that welfare should not be "an easy target" and the government had "a responsibility to support people in difficulty".
But if you want to squeeze public spending as much as the government does, most economists would say that debates about welfare are not optional at all.
The promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.
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Much of his concern was based on the law creating requirements that welfare recipients would not be able to fulfill and, as a result, have its own unintended consequence of causing welfare recipients to lose the aid they depend upon to feed and house their families should it become impossible to comply with the law.
Indeed, all of the biggest federal spending programs provide welfare, just not to poor people.
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But the British Hen Welfare Trust said not all EU countries would adhere to the ban.
She accused child welfare officials of not doing enough to find some place to put the two sisters other than jail.
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Most former welfare mothers are not leaping from handouts to the middle class.
The harsh answer is that the welfare system is not the real problem.
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Meanwhile, job-centres and municipal welfare offices did not know enough about their clients to determine eligibility under the new rules.
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It is consumption taxes which carry the heavy load of funding the welfare state, not those taxes on income, companies or capital.
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"My aim through this debate is to highlight where I believe animal welfare standards are not being enforced effectively enough, " she added.
But the result could be to fuel inflation and subsidise the welfare system, not to give it the trim it badly needs.
In 1992, the most recent year for which a complete statistical profile exists, almost half of welfare recipients had not com pleted high school.
The Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said the welfare budget could not be "insulated" from spending cuts that were needed to rebalance the public finances.
First, we must find new ways of tackling poverty and inequality, and that means dealing with the fact that life on welfare benefits is not easy.
If the argument is that illegal immigrants are overtaxing the welfare state, then that's an argument for paring back the welfare state, not deporting 12 million people.
Last month, Mr Duncan Smith said welfare levels were not in fact being cut and those on benefits would see cash increases in every year of this Parliament.
That one has focused on the IRS's "failure to enforce the law requiring that tax-exempt 501(c)4s be engaged exclusively in social welfare activities, not partisan politics, " Levin said in a statement.
But while the Countryside Alliance is keen to emphasise that at the end of the hunt, the stag is free to go, animal welfare campaigners are not impressed with that argument.
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Archbishop Welby later wrote on his blog that he was questioning one aspect of the government's wide-ranging welfare changes, not condemning efforts to make work pay and improve people's livelihoods which he said were, in general, "incredibly brave".
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