Increased expenditure and a widening of what was considered to be the state's responsibility. In addition to the central services of education, health, unemployment and sickness allowances, the welfare state also included the idea of increasing redistributive taxation, increasing regulation of industry, food, and housing (better safety regulations, weights and measures controls, etc.)
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "becoming more self-sufficient." Trading centers in other countries helped the mother country in all of the following ways except for: becoming more self-sufficient gathering sufficient.
