Henry Giroux Quotes

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

If you throw a welfare state into the middle of a democracy, it’s very hard to get rid of the beast.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

Even in the United States, 'you have a sort of welfare state, even if you don't want to admit it -- you don't allow people to die on the street.

I think most Americans believe in a basic social safety net.

Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.

I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

It’s been a very slow, very expensive business—reforming the welfare state.

Treaties or international covenants which provide human rights to food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, or old age would transform the United States into a completely socialistic state.

One of the things that made the marriage between liberty and popular sovereignty possible was the welfare state. Democracy has three parts. It has liberty, it has popular sovereignty, and it has a social safety net as well

Generous, effective, and broadly accessible social welfare policies do not require large government bureaucracies staffed with armies of public servants.

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside.

A lot of the differences between left and right now are differences about the liberal welfare state, about a set of institutions established in America in the middle of the 20th century … that exist in pursuit of an egalitarian ideal.

It cannot be said that we dislike paying taxes for the welfare of those less well off than we are, so we develop a draping cover of economic and social theory.

All of the nation's young people of both sexes, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, as a continuation of their public school education, shall be industrially organized to produce, under scientific direction, a sufficiency of the necessary goods and services to constitute a decent livelihood and to distribute these goods and services without buying or selling them, to the entire population. Continuation of their public school education, shall be industrially organized to produce, under scientific direction, a sufficiency of the necessities.

We are not for cutting social welfare and are for more health care.