“Most controversially the paper argues that those who voluntarily choose dependency should not have a full role in selecting the nation’s government.”

In a back-handed way, allowing people to opt to be clients of the welfare state, but taking away their ability to share fully in the governance of the State is a return to the property and literacy qualifications that were a standard feature of late 19th and early 20th Century republicanism and parliamentary government.

The Left would never allow itself to be cutoff from mobilization of the power of so many clients and voters,nor would it allow others to escape the tax and regulatory clutches of the welfare state. The only way the welfare state shall pass is to collapse by its own weight, or be buried by more efficient, more ruthless rivals who do not care about the popular equality god.