Welfare Forever

Once a welfare state is introduced it is there forever as entrenched vested interests forming a powerful client state voting block depend on its perpetuation and represent a critical mass of the electorate which it is impossible to challenge through the ballot box.Unless someone is earning over 40.000 pa they get more out of the benefit system than they put in and seeing those who earn over that amount are in the minority do the math and it is obvious the wealthy elites are being shafted daily by the tax system and are effectively vassals in a modern welfare slave state in effective indentured servitude to the non productive masses.It is no use appealing to the entrepreneurial class to oppose this tyranny as most of them have bought into the masochistic ideology that it is their duty to pay royalties in the form of taxes to the non productive low wage masses so for this reason it is hard to see a way out of this impasse.The intellectual classes certainly cannot be appealed to as they are the authors and originators of this madness and they have the commanding heights of the intellectual sphere,colonising and prempting the field.Revolution is out because unless a coherent alternative is first presented it would leave a vacuum into which would step anarchists,nihilists,terrorists,criminals,communists,fascists leaving the country at the mercy of stray gangs and gangsters and thus far worse than the present existing lamentable state.So I guess that the slow painstaking work of education and disemination of ideas has to continue - if we have the time of course.A mixed economy is a precarious state,an interim period between either freedom or tyranny.It has a tendency to go more towards the latter as each government intervention begets another on the slow long and winding road to serfdom.