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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36498)5/5/2014 12:08:35 AM
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Has there been any society in history that didn't tax in some fashion for the protection and welfare of that society???
Other than protecting property rights and providing for a national military, much what you believe of "providing for the peoples welfare" is a relatively modern invention that can only exist in industrialized societies. The first society to provide what you are referring to is Germany in the 1870's. And this also didn't really exist in the US until the 1930's. Even today what you refer to does not exist in much of Africa.

Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890.

He was the master of complex politics at home. He created the first welfare state in the modern world, with the goal of gaining working class support that might otherwise go to his Socialist enemies.


In the 1870s he allied himself with the Liberals (who were low-tariff and anti-Catholic) and fought the Catholic Church in a culture war. He lost that battle as the Catholics responded by forming a powerful Center party and using universal male suffrage to gain a bloc of seats. Bismarck then reversed himself, ended the culture war, broke with the Liberals, imposed tariffs, and formed a political alliance with the Center party to fight the Socialists.
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