Star Parker | Dec 12, 2018
As France is gripped by civil disorder, many commentators identify, quite correctly, as the culprit the outsized burden that France's bloated welfare state places on its citizens.
According a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the highest tax burden in the industrialized world is in France -- 46.1 percent of GDP.
In the United States, it is 27 percent, which includes taxes paid at all levels of government -- federal, state and local.
Welfare state spending in France is 32 percent of GDP, almost double that of the U.S., meaning that 1 out of every 3 dollars generated by the French economy is captured by the government and redistributed into social/welfare spending..........The vast expansion of the welfare state, both in Europe and in the United States, occurred in tandem with a weakening of the family. And weakening of the family generally occurs in an environment of weakening of religion.
When I speak and tell audiences that today 4 in 10 babies in the United States are born to unwed mothers, compared with less than 1 in 10 babies 50 years ago, I hear gasps. But in France, out of wedlock births stand at 6 in 10. Not surprisingly, a recent survey by Pew Research of 34 European countries shows France to be one of the least religious...........To Read More....
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