Senator Sanders and the recent crop of POTUS Democrat primary candidates need to coin a new term to replace their concept of “democratic socialism”. The traditional definition of socialism advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. This is not what the candidates are proposing. What is being proposed is healthcare, education, minimum income, minimum wages and other social programs funded by taxes. Unlike with socialism, there is no ownership or regulation by the community as a whole. The “government” — not the people (beneficiaries of the social programs) — control and administrate the programs. If the associated taxes are excessive, or the benefits inadequate, the people have no direct means of correcting the burden. Since taxes associated with such programs are justified by an erroneous interpretation of the “general welfare” clause of the Constitution a better term may be “general welfarism” instead of “democratic socialism” but welfarism is already defined as a form of consequentialism. I propose the term “welfare economics”.