I agree with you on the nanny state regulations, it's pretty out of control here.
Regarding the social-health blowouts, as I said we're a relatively low taxing country overall at ~28% tax/GDP.
So we could probably stand to raise that ratio to 30-32% and that would probably tackle that blowout for a long time while leaving the private economy in ok shape (provided the tax changes were smart like hitting super/inheritance/land/capital rather than just slugging income even more).
