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I like the system here in Finland. Right now I'm being paid to stay home with my child for 3 years, thats pretty nice.
Taxes are I think 30% at the top rate but then there's also Municipal tax (16-24%), I only pay 20% altogether though.
The real question is can you ski and surf in the same day in Sweden?
No, but how many Americans could do that besides parts of California and west coast? Unless stuck in traffic of course, and few people would do that anyway, if any.
No, but how many Americans could do that besides parts of California and west coast? Unless stuck in traffic of course, and few people would do that anyway, if any.
Yea...anybody who would do that would be doing so superfluously.
I know about 40 people from Sweden, and they have told me numerous times that income taxes there are 50%, not the 32% number you allude to.
now remember, if we went by the letter of the law, then we as Americans could just not pay into the system because it is supposed to be a moral law and not an actual law.
Income tax vary by income in Sweden too. Low-skilled people may least.
As previously mentioned by another poster, only Norway is funded by oil, followed by Britain. Sweden, Denmark, and Finland don't have any significant oil or gas reserves. So, how do Sweden, Denmark, and Finland fund their extremely generous welfare system and labor laws if they don't have any oil to sell? I'll wait
Iron ore, telecom, engineering.
We have Volvo, Saab, Scania, Ericsson, IKEA, H&M, Skanska
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The real question is can you ski and surf in the same day in Sweden?
Yes. If you have a plane that can take you from the mountains in the north to the coast in the south.
Iron ore, telecom, engineering.
We have Volvo, Saab, Scania, Ericsson, IKEA, H&M, Skanska
That's not oil, BigSwede that still doesn't explain how Sweden can fund its welfare system so well compared to Norway's, since the anarcho-capitalists on here are convinced that it's only oil funding the Nordic model (when in fact it's only Norway)
No, but how many Americans could do that besides parts of California and west coast? Unless stuck in traffic of course, and few people would do that anyway, if any.
That's not oil, BigSwede that still doesn't explain how Sweden can fund its welfare system so well compared to Norway's, since the anarcho-capitalists on here are convinced that it's only oil funding the Nordic model (when in fact it's only Norway)
You are not entirely wrong, since IKEA is hiding much of their money in Lichtenstein.
But we still have 3/4 of ABBA living here and they do pay tax.
You can't have leftists and their clients gaming the system for all that to be possible.
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that still doesn't explain how Sweden can fund its welfare system so well compared to Norway's, since the anarcho-capitalists on here are convinced that it's only oil funding the Nordic model (when in fact it's only Norway) 
