This
> combination of things "work" well for the US bourgeoisie, the
> petty-bourgeoisie and the aristocracy of labour. All of this tends to
> detract from any interest in and pressure for a welfare state, which is
> perceived ---- probably correctly --- as increasing their taxes.
I don't disagree with this; individual capitalists are usually motivated by their immediate interests. (In India, the ratio of taxes to GDP has come down from about 14% to 8% in a decade.) But isn't the bourgeois state supposed to represent the permanent and long term interests of capitalist system as a whole? Is that a myth?
Ulhas