First, in the typical "European personality" European welfare system, most welfare providers are countries.
Especially in northern Europe, from cradle to grave, from hospitals to doctors, almost all welfare providers are countries. Even in the welfare system of autonomy and mutual assistance, such as France, Germany and Austria in western Europe, although the institution providing welfare services is not the national public sector and the state does not do it by itself, its special legal status of combining private law status with public service objectives determines that it is only an extension of the public sector.
Second, the financing channels of European-style welfare countries mainly come from taxes. In this way, everyone in the European welfare state building implements a unified level of free medical care, regardless of wage income level and tax payment. The national finance is at the bottom, with large-scale transfer payments every year, and the financial burden is getting heavier and heavier.
Third, European welfare countries have high taxes. Higher than America.
Fourth, the tax level of European welfare countries remains high. In addition to raising the tax burden, they also have to cut the welfare level drastically to "lose weight" for the welfare state.
Fifth, European welfare countries have high tax burden and high level of welfare treatment, which has great side effects on the labor market. The first is to curb the supply of labor, and the phenomenon of "welfare disease" is more prominent. At the same time, high welfare brings high debt.