Foreign Aid and the International Welfare State
WHEN I first sat down to type up this article, I was a bit confused on the manner in which I should begin. This has happened once or twice before. While something usually comes to me, the best remedy – which I am going to be using now – is to simply jump right into the main idea. No introductory dilly-dallying. Both welfare and foreign aid have been hot topics in recent years. The ever-leftward Democrats have been calling for welfarist initiatives such as Medicare-for-All and outright expansions of the welfare state. The Trump administration was defined by a platform bitterly opposed to international aid , which lead to the usual squealing of “nativism” and (somehow) “fascism”. To a certain extent, it seems as if most political commentators and the citizenry see these two topics as distinct; welfare is domestic policy, foreign aid is foreign policy. However, what I want to propose in this art...