A massive study published by Klaus Gründler and Sebastian Köllner of the economics department of the University of Würzburg, and published by the Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research: “Culture, Diversity, and the Welfare State.” It’s a 50-age global study using every bit of data available and every statistical technique for assessing cause and effect, featuring a blithering array of data and references.Author Jeff Tucker restates their findings as follows:
People will tolerate large, invasive, redistributionist states so long as they think people more or less like themselves are benefiting; that is, provided that the public sector is perceived as an overlord of a large family.That's a European generalization. In the U. S. setting it would be something like: "We love Social Security and Medicare, don't love welfare, Medicaid, and illegal immigrants."
However, when conditions change, and the population loses its collective demographic characteristics, people don’t like their tax dollars funneled to people too much unlike themselves. They will fight that one of two ways: dismantling the welfare state or kicking out those perceived to be interlopers.
In short, all data indicate that the mix of the two – high diversity and high welfare – is not politically sustainable.
Sounds vaguely familiar, doesn't it? Much like slogans heard at a Trump rally, I believe. Hat tip to Instapundit for the link.
