What do welfare statists of different political persuasions agree upon?

They may disagree on details, but they agree on principle that individual rights have to be violated for the “public good” through taxation, redistribution, and regulation, although not on the scale of the totalitarian (communism and fascism) and the authoritarian, flirting-with-totalitarianism (socialism, oligarchy, and theocracy) social systems.

Both today’s political right and left support welfare statism. On the right, all shades of conservatives—classical liberal (at least often), fiscal, compassionate, social, nationalist, etc.—subscribe to some level of welfare statism, which may vary greatly in degree. Likewise, many people on the left—center left, social liberal, social democrat, progressives, and democratic socialist—are more or less avid supporters of the welfare state.

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