Critically assess the principal ways of financing the welfare state.
You need to break it down:
-What is the ‘welfare state’.
-Which welfare state? What time period are you talking about? Are you assessing developments over a particular time frame? If so, be explicit about the time frame.
-You may wish to pick one or two key areas such as social care, health care, education, housing etc. Give examples.
-What are the ways in which elements of welfare are financed? Taxes? Charging? Insurance?
-Explain, contrast and compare the different ways, again you may want to choose 2 or 3 (fewer is probably better) and acknowledge there are other ways.