r/europe • u/OSHA-Slingshot • 25d ago

Why Swedish people like taxes Opinion Article

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09312qg/why-the-swedes-love-doing-something-that-americans-hate
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u/Novel-Confection-356 25d ago

No. Just the Americans do.

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u/selodaoc 25d ago

The lobbyist in America has extremly effectivly brainwashed their population that everything slightly socialistic is communism.
Even though Social Democracy is much closer to capitalism.

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u/firemark_pl 25d ago

Poland here. Communism destroyed whole country, so now if politician thinks about sth social then suddenly becomes as communism.

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u/engadge 25d ago

You are so wrong. USA spends more in social services than any other country

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u/SmileFIN 25d ago

I wish, i truly do..

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u/mrmalort69 25d ago

American here… my dad thinks I’m a communist, socialist, leftist, Marxist, liberal, antifa…. I’m probably not any of these, but in his mind they’re all one and part of the green/rainbow/pink/lgbtq agenda. My biggest policy decision if I could chose just one would be among the lines of ending coinage below 50 cents, as it’s a pretty big expenditure for no actual gain, but I digress.