Thursday, October 23, 2008

this is from wikipedia

This is in reference to Social Democracy



In general, contemporary social democrats support:

  • mixed economy consisting mainly of private enterprise, but with government owned or subsidized programs of educationhealthcarechild care and related services for all citizens.
  • Government bodies that regulate private enterprise in the interests of workers, consumers and fair competition.
  • Advocacy of fair trade over free trade.
  • An extensive system of social security (although usually not to the extent advocated by democratic socialists or other socialist groups), with the stated goal of counteracting the effects of poverty and insuring the citizens against loss of income following illness, unemployment or retirement.
  • Moderate to high levels of taxation (through a value-added and/or progressive taxation system) to fund government expenditure.

Social democrats also tend to support:


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

yay for social democracy!