>It’s how socialism works. Spend other people’s money on handouts then blame capitalism for the public debt. That's how an economically careless welfare state

>It’s how socialism works. Spend other people’s money on handouts then blame capitalism for the public debt. That's how an economically careless welfare state works in a capitalist economy. What you are describing is social democracy, which is not the same as socialism and never has been in the history of the movements or any terminology recognised by social scientists. Socialism is direct worker control over the state and social means of production (to the point where Karl Marx considered the term synonymous to "Communism"), while social democracy is a liberal capitalist economy in which the government (which owns very little social means of production itself) funds welfare programs through taxes.