The British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to tighten the rules on state welfare to immigrants.

英国首相卡梅伦宣布了收紧移民福利政策的计划。

His position is not original, although he has made the argument about immigration undermining the welfare state his own.

他的思想不过是把以前的争论翻新了一遍，尽管确实是他提出了移民有损福利国家的理论。

I'd rather a different social welfare state personally.

我个人更喜欢不同的社会福利国家。

For all her talk about reforming the welfare state, the public sector consumed almost the same proportion of GDP when she left office as when she came to it.

但是，在她离任时，公共开支在GDP中的比例同她执政之初相比并没有出现增长。

Scandinavian countries have large welfare states with their social expenditures, as a percentage of GDP, among the highest in the world and this requires high levels of taxation.

斯堪的纳维亚国家拥有庞大的福利国家，其社会支出占 GDP 的百分比在世界上名列前茅， 这需要高水平的税收。

The idea has support across the political spectrum, from libertarians who say it would simplify the existing social welfare state, to socialists who want to redistribute wealth toward the lower and middle class.

这个想法得到了各个政治派别的支持，从声称这将简化现有社会福利国家的自由主义者，到希望将财富重新分配给中下阶层的社会主义者。