Why are people in Sweden happy to pay taxes? What motivates them to work if its not greed?
Yet still ranks 4th in the most competitive economy in the world
Politics - 9 Answers
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Logic
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Having been to Sweden, I can confirm that the average Swede lives with a much higher quality of life than the typical American. You get what you pay for.
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in sweden they actually get results for their tax dollars. there are not many conservatives to water everything down or outright destroy things like we have here.
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The Vikings were hard workers to begin with, plus they luckily didn't get as tainted with the whole religious movement. They were a society of warriors and hardworking individuals who prided themselves in what they did. That's bottom line the answer to their success. But like C White said, you hardly see a Swede with 3 cars and two houses like Americans have.
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I've been to Sweden and I know many Swedes. Here's the stunner: the Swedish people I know enjoy their jobs and simply care about being productive members of society. They pay high taxes because they get many good services from their government.
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The key is that they actually work. Here we have a whole segment(millions) of society who are leeches and don't want to contribute..
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Most of them work, so they get the Tax they pay to work for them. Look at the average wage there, quality of life, immigration control and the benefits the workers get. Mass employment really does work and respect for all careers. That could be why such a small country does so well. Greed comes from taking something from another. No sweat shops so you can buy a cheap shirt, no whipping the pot wash because they are poor, as you don't pay them much. I would go for mass employment any day.
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We work so we can pay taxes of course. ;) Actually, work can be quite fun and you have to do something in life, otherwise you'll be bored. I would never want to live off other people's tax money unless I have to. Being unemployed makes you feel like you're a burden, as if you're not doing anything meaningful in life. I think that's actually much worse than the economical disadvantage of being unemployed, but not all Swedes would agree with me. Many Swedes only work for the money too. I don't mind paying taxes since I don't really need that money anyway. When you have enough money to live a comfortable life, more money won't make you happier. And we DO get most of it back, the benefits of living in a welfare-state are worth paying for. Even if I would end up paying more taxes than I get back, I will still believe that my money was used for good purposes. It's like an insurance, it's good to have one if you need it, and if you don't, then at least you've helped somebody else.
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Like Vendelay says, most Swedes are content with paying their taxes because we are made aware of, or take an interest in, what we actually get out of the taxes: virtually free health care, free education including at University level, lots of foreign aid, a good welfare system, police and rescue services, a high proportion of foreign aid and a very low proportion of defence and armed forces costs. There are probably other innumerable things I've forgotten to mention. If you're a wage earner, you can't do much to avoid paying taxes, and you probably won't want to work more than 40 hours/week even if you could, because you wouldn't have time to enjoy life. Businesses and the self-employed may be more motivated by greed, and they are also the ones with the most opportunities to cheat. With the ridiculously high tax rates of the 70s, everyone but the poor wanted to avoid or evade taxes, legally or otherwise, but things have changed, and with a reformed tax system and a few years of conservative rule, only a small number of extremely wealthy Swedes need go into tax exile. The general idea now is that it should be worth your while making money, and the tax rate should be bearable. That way, people will be less likely to try and cheat and more willing to pay their taxes, and the economy will improve.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Why are people in Sweden happy to pay taxes? What motivates them to work if its not greed
Why are people in Sweden happy to pay taxes? What motivates them to work if its not greed?
Yet still ranks 4th in the most competitive economies in the world
Politics - 13 Answers
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Sweden? LOL Have fun there.
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Because they are not whiny cry babies. We here in the US are.
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Because they get it.
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Perhaps you should read up on how compensation works in Sweden. Due to the confiscatory taxes, anyone with marketable skills asks for non-taxable perks, such as use of a car, housing subsidized by the employer, etc...
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Quality of life, I would say. They pay a lot in taxes but they get a lot for it. Without worries about how to pay for health care, education, child care and a host of other services, they are free to live their lives, enjoy their free time and not be afflicted by stress like Americans.
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Really? lol, ask them about it, they are not so happy. They don't rank 4th either. You have no earthly idea what the heck you are talking about.
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There culture is much different. They aren't spoiled. They work hard because they don't just care about themselves but about their country. Swedes are bred to work hard. Their happy to pay tax because they get quality education and quality public services.
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People share a common tendency to be good and understand what is good for one is good for the common good. Greed and thievery is tempered by the longer term management of social and economic imperatives. The Swedes are obviously smarter and more educated than the average American corporate whore.
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How do you get a Swede to jump off a cliff? Line meatballs up to the edge!
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Sweden has 32 paid vacation days per year.
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Most people work hard for a better life for themselves & those they love. I wouldn't call that greed. As for Sweden i don't know. There are only 9 million people there. And they all seem to be from pretty much the same background. That can make it easier to run a government & agree on things. And with Sweden a part of the EU now. If they don't like Sweden they can work elsewhere with in the EU. Not sure how that affects their taxes but they don't have to be stuck in Sweden if they don't want too.
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Happy? Check this out: A bursting real estate bubble caused by inadequate controls on lending combined with an international recession and a policy switch from anti-unemployment policies to anti-inflationary policies resulted in a fiscal crisis in the early 1990s. In 1992, there was a run on the currency, with the central bank briefly jacking up interest to 500%. The response of the government was to cut spending and institute a multitude of reforms to improve Sweden's competitiveness, among them reducing the welfare state and privatizing public services and goods. ************************************ sound familiar at all? ************************************ Since the late 1960s, Sweden has had the highest tax quota (as percentage of GDP) in the industrialized world, although today the gap has narrowed and Denmark has surpassed Sweden as the most heavily taxed country among developed countries. Sweden has a two step progressive tax scale with a municipal income tax of about 30% and an additional high-income state tax of 20รข€“25% when a salary exceeds roughly 320,000 SEK per year. Payroll taxes amount to 32%. In addition, a national VAT of 25% is added to many things bought by private citizens, with the exception of food (12% VAT), transportation, and books (6% VAT). *************************************** VAT anyone? *************************************** Eighty percent of the workforce is organized through the trade-unions Sweden have a relatively high amount of sick leave per worker in OECD: the average worker loses 24 days due to sickness. Now that's a LOT of sick! 5 weeks a year? Happy? Doubtful they are that happy. Between Jake's stat on paid vacation days, and this stat for sick days, that's almost 3 months out of the year these bums do not have to work! lol Having 60% of my income taken from me, would stress me out. I am guessing that soon enough Sweden will go the way of Greece.
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Most Swedes are content with paying their taxes because we are made aware of, or take an interest in, what we actually get out of the taxes: virtually free health care, free education including at University level, lots of foreign aid, a good welfare system, police and rescue services, a high proportion of foreign aid and a very low proportion of defence and armed forces costs. There are probably other innumerable things I've forgotten to mention. If you're a wage earner, you can't do much to avoid paying taxes, and you probably won't want to work more than 40 hours/week even if you could, because you wouldn't have time to enjoy life. Businesses and the self-employed may be more motivated by greed, and they are also the ones with the most opportunities to cheat. With the ridiculously high tax rates of the 70s, everyone but the poor wanted to avoid or evade taxes, legally or otherwise, but things have changed, and with a reformed tax system and a few years of conservative rule, only a small number of extremely wealthy Swedes need go into tax exile. The general idea now is that it should be worth your while making money, and the tax rate should be bearable. That way, people will be less likely to try and cheat and more willing to pay their taxes, and the economy will improve. What do you hope to gain by posting exactly the same question twice in two days? OK, it saved me saying it all again, I just copied my previous answer...
Yet still ranks 4th in the most competitive economies in the world
Politics - 13 Answers
Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
1 :
Sweden? LOL Have fun there.
2 :
Because they are not whiny cry babies. We here in the US are.
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Because they get it.
4 :
Perhaps you should read up on how compensation works in Sweden. Due to the confiscatory taxes, anyone with marketable skills asks for non-taxable perks, such as use of a car, housing subsidized by the employer, etc...
5 :
Quality of life, I would say. They pay a lot in taxes but they get a lot for it. Without worries about how to pay for health care, education, child care and a host of other services, they are free to live their lives, enjoy their free time and not be afflicted by stress like Americans.
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Really? lol, ask them about it, they are not so happy. They don't rank 4th either. You have no earthly idea what the heck you are talking about.
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There culture is much different. They aren't spoiled. They work hard because they don't just care about themselves but about their country. Swedes are bred to work hard. Their happy to pay tax because they get quality education and quality public services.
8 :
People share a common tendency to be good and understand what is good for one is good for the common good. Greed and thievery is tempered by the longer term management of social and economic imperatives. The Swedes are obviously smarter and more educated than the average American corporate whore.
9 :
How do you get a Swede to jump off a cliff? Line meatballs up to the edge!
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Sweden has 32 paid vacation days per year.
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Most people work hard for a better life for themselves & those they love. I wouldn't call that greed. As for Sweden i don't know. There are only 9 million people there. And they all seem to be from pretty much the same background. That can make it easier to run a government & agree on things. And with Sweden a part of the EU now. If they don't like Sweden they can work elsewhere with in the EU. Not sure how that affects their taxes but they don't have to be stuck in Sweden if they don't want too.
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Happy? Check this out: A bursting real estate bubble caused by inadequate controls on lending combined with an international recession and a policy switch from anti-unemployment policies to anti-inflationary policies resulted in a fiscal crisis in the early 1990s. In 1992, there was a run on the currency, with the central bank briefly jacking up interest to 500%. The response of the government was to cut spending and institute a multitude of reforms to improve Sweden's competitiveness, among them reducing the welfare state and privatizing public services and goods. ************************************ sound familiar at all? ************************************ Since the late 1960s, Sweden has had the highest tax quota (as percentage of GDP) in the industrialized world, although today the gap has narrowed and Denmark has surpassed Sweden as the most heavily taxed country among developed countries. Sweden has a two step progressive tax scale with a municipal income tax of about 30% and an additional high-income state tax of 20รข€“25% when a salary exceeds roughly 320,000 SEK per year. Payroll taxes amount to 32%. In addition, a national VAT of 25% is added to many things bought by private citizens, with the exception of food (12% VAT), transportation, and books (6% VAT). *************************************** VAT anyone? *************************************** Eighty percent of the workforce is organized through the trade-unions Sweden have a relatively high amount of sick leave per worker in OECD: the average worker loses 24 days due to sickness. Now that's a LOT of sick! 5 weeks a year? Happy? Doubtful they are that happy. Between Jake's stat on paid vacation days, and this stat for sick days, that's almost 3 months out of the year these bums do not have to work! lol Having 60% of my income taken from me, would stress me out. I am guessing that soon enough Sweden will go the way of Greece.
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Most Swedes are content with paying their taxes because we are made aware of, or take an interest in, what we actually get out of the taxes: virtually free health care, free education including at University level, lots of foreign aid, a good welfare system, police and rescue services, a high proportion of foreign aid and a very low proportion of defence and armed forces costs. There are probably other innumerable things I've forgotten to mention. If you're a wage earner, you can't do much to avoid paying taxes, and you probably won't want to work more than 40 hours/week even if you could, because you wouldn't have time to enjoy life. Businesses and the self-employed may be more motivated by greed, and they are also the ones with the most opportunities to cheat. With the ridiculously high tax rates of the 70s, everyone but the poor wanted to avoid or evade taxes, legally or otherwise, but things have changed, and with a reformed tax system and a few years of conservative rule, only a small number of extremely wealthy Swedes need go into tax exile. The general idea now is that it should be worth your while making money, and the tax rate should be bearable. That way, people will be less likely to try and cheat and more willing to pay their taxes, and the economy will improve. What do you hope to gain by posting exactly the same question twice in two days? OK, it saved me saying it all again, I just copied my previous answer...
Thursday, April 7, 2011
How do you work legally in France if you are from Sweden?(countries within EU)
How do you work legally in France if you are from Sweden?(countries within EU)?
Is it hard? Do you need to get a Visa? Or is it okay to just have a passport and be EU-citizen?
Immigration - 4 Answers
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the EU has open borders to EU nationals so all you need is a passport and maybe just register that you have moved country
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Speak with a french accent and grow a moustache so people think you are french. Wearing a beret, a string of onions round your neck and a stripy shirt would also help disguise yourself.
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Find a job and register with the local police station and voila! Damir - you are talking rubbish!
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"You need working VISA" -Only if you are from a non-EU country.
Is it hard? Do you need to get a Visa? Or is it okay to just have a passport and be EU-citizen?
Immigration - 4 Answers
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the EU has open borders to EU nationals so all you need is a passport and maybe just register that you have moved country
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Speak with a french accent and grow a moustache so people think you are french. Wearing a beret, a string of onions round your neck and a stripy shirt would also help disguise yourself.
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Find a job and register with the local police station and voila! Damir - you are talking rubbish!
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"You need working VISA" -Only if you are from a non-EU country.
Friday, April 1, 2011
can you buy kangaroo meat in sweden
can you buy kangaroo meat in sweden?
Hi I'm looking to work in Sweden at the continental markets for 2 months. We have an australian BBQ (but are based in the UK) and we sell kangaroo burgers and wild boar burgers. Does anyone know anywhere in or near to Sweden that sell Kangaroo burgers? We can take them over ourselves, but it's a whole lot easier if we can get them over there instead! Thanks for any help to this strange question! Thanks - but they are in China & Japan - I'm looking for someone in Sweden
Other - Europe - 1 Answers
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http://b2b.tradeholding.com/default.cgi/action/viewcompanies/sellers-exporters-manufacturers-distributors/kangaroo+meat/ this s the link ther by u knw abt all the details u need .........
Hi I'm looking to work in Sweden at the continental markets for 2 months. We have an australian BBQ (but are based in the UK) and we sell kangaroo burgers and wild boar burgers. Does anyone know anywhere in or near to Sweden that sell Kangaroo burgers? We can take them over ourselves, but it's a whole lot easier if we can get them over there instead! Thanks for any help to this strange question! Thanks - but they are in China & Japan - I'm looking for someone in Sweden
Other - Europe - 1 Answers
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http://b2b.tradeholding.com/default.cgi/action/viewcompanies/sellers-exporters-manufacturers-distributors/kangaroo+meat/ this s the link ther by u knw abt all the details u need .........
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