If people don’t warn austerity, the best thing to do is just cut off welfare payments all together.that will free up government spending for more important issues. Deporting illegals would also help.
Well, the social market economy will never allow that to happen. They’re all about expanding the welfare state.
Again, EU/German “austerity” is not what we would call economic restoration in the USA. What kind of conservative could embrace raising taxes (including pressuring countries with low corporate tax rates to raise them in order to “harmonize” with the more powerful neighboring countries that have higher corporate tax rates); be strong-armed into taking “bailout” loans whose terms include giving up sovereignty to the EU’s central government especially in fiscal matters; and actually increasing regulation that strangles private entrepreneurship and gives more government oversight or outright operation of business and industry? The only thing that the welfare state will do in the face of that is expand, not contract.