What do sociologists mean by "welfare policies" and "welfare states" or "the welfare state"? Select any or all of the statements below that give correct answers to this question. This test question doesn't offer you slides. You are encouraged to think across units and concepts that you've learned in Intro to Sociology. Of course, you're welcome to look up whatever you'd like, if time permits. Question 1 options: U.S. Tea Party activists' paraded in support of Democratic president Barack Obama's effort to expand the U.S. welfare state with greater medical coverage for low cost or no cost. Finland and Norway are examples of small countries yet with relaively big welfare states. Welfare states sometimes are funded with higher tax rates on rich people in a society. To the extent people with higher incomes are made to pay higher tax rates, social scientists call this progressive taxation. Modern welfare states use taxes and transfers to relieve poverty in various ways, to varying degrees among the rich democracies. The USSR under Stalin, was a capitalist welfare state that competed with negihborhood co-ops.