Yeah, Socialism only exist until you have the power to raise taxes on other people's money and until you run out of there money too. The state doesn't produce anything. All it does is take money from others and spread it to others, so parties like the Democratic party in the U.S can buy votes from mostly minorities groups who use welfare at a 75%+ rate. The United States wasn't suppose be a big government country, until they flooded their country will 3rd world immigrants/refugees in 1965 and what happen that year....... LBJ signed the massive welfare programs that year.The funny thing is socialist or "democratic" socialist countries like Sweden and Germany have less regulations on businesses compare to the U.S.