Funny you should mention Sweden
Sweden is falling apart
Then you have THIS IDIOT who uses someone else's biased post to state that "Sweden is falling apart"....even though that other pioster was bitching about immigrants to Sweden.
How truly fucked up are these right wingers......
Tip of the iceberg you indocterated twit.
Income
tax for the average Swede is 44 percent, with rates as
high as 60 percent. As a percentage of gross domesticproduct,
Sweden's income
taxrevenue is one of the world's highest. The value-added
tax, essentially a sales
tax, is 25 percent.
A Scandinavian myth-buster: What’s wrong with the idea of Sweden’s utopia
Net job creation in Sweden between 1950 and 2000 was close to zero
Sweden. Home to IKEA, the Swedish Chef, those tasty meatballs … and the most comprehensive cradle-to-grave welfare system in the western world. Touted as a “third way,” the socialist-capitalist hybrid was to have been compatible with the growth and prosperity of free markets whilst simultaneously offering an unparalleled social safety net. The idea of Sweden, and indeed all Nordic countries, as a kind of utopia lives on.
Between the 70s and the 90s Sweden fell from fourth richest nation in the world to 13th. (Following free-market reforms at that time, they climbed back up to 10th by 2010.)
In 2004, only 38 of 100 businesses with the highest revenues in Sweden were privately owned. And only two of those 38 opened their doors after 1970. (IKEA, for example, began in 1943. Incidentally, its founder, Ingvar Kamprad, moved his wealth to the Netherlands and IKEA is owned by a family-controlled foundation in Liechtenstein, says Sanandaji.)
Meanwhile, net job creation in Sweden between 1950 and 2000 was close to zero in spite of the increase in population.
High rates of hidden unemployment dog the Scandinavian countries, too. This happens when the government classifies individuals on various government programs as “employed.”
