However, in the context of open markets and the associated competition of economic regulatory regimes and the type of social welfare state, even this constellation is subject to change. Both contribution-based welfare financing from wages and salaries as also the funding of welfare benefits from general taxes limit the scope of strategies for income protection. In every case, they would have destructive consequences for the sustainable organization of a social welfare state because of the negative effect they have on the labour market, except when a society is willing to raise higher than average income tax in a sustained manner. Hence, in the case of most countries in the current situation, globalization acts as a filter that limits the scope for increasing the level of permanently guaranteed social security beyond the level of a socially appropriate basic protection. This restrictive condition that has been imposed by open markets does not in any way contradict the principles of universal justice and of universal basic rights as has been illustrated through the arguments presented here. In the ultimate analysis, it is an issue of the actual political discourse on justice that takes place in a society, hoe it aspires to fill the space defined by basic rights and the principles of universal justice through its own concept of social welfare protection.