福利主义主张政府收取缴纳高税收，并提供高福利乃至一手承办教育、卫生之类涉及公民福利的事业。

一方面，福利主义国家有明显的社会主义性质。另一方面，福利国家必然带来高税收。

Welfarism is a form of consequentialism. Like all forms of consequentialism, welfarism is based on the premise that actions, policies, and/or rules should be evaluated on the basis of their consequences. Welfarism is the view that the morally significant consequences are impacts on human (or animal) welfare. There are many different understandings of human welfare, but the term "welfarism" is usually associated with the economic conception of welfare. Economists usually think of individual welfare in terms of utility functions, a perspective in which social welfare can be conceived as an aggregation of individual utilities or utility functions.