Criticisms of welfare
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The modern welfare state has been criticized on economic and moral grounds from all ends of the political spectrum. Classical liberals, libertarians, and conservatives often argue that the provision of tax-funded services or transfer payments reduces the incentive for workers to seek employment, thereby reducing the need to work, reducing the rewards of work, and exacerbating poverty. On the other hand, socialists typically criticize the welfare state as championed by liberals and social democrats as an attempt to legitimize and strengthen the capitalist economic system, which conflicts with the socialist goal of replacing capitalism with a socialist economic system.
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See also
- Criticisms of social democracy
- Disability fraud
- Moral hazard
- Nanny state
- Pensions crisis
- State Socialism (Germany)
- Welfare capitalism
- Welfare culture
- Welfare fraud
- Welfare queen
- Welfare's effect on poverty
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