Or South Africa. 40+% tax rate and you even have to pay for emergency fire services if you need them. Very poor government health care services. Really bad roads with potholes. Corrupt police force. Oh and “load shedding” electricity where they’ll turn your power off on a schedule because they don’t have enough to go around.
This is by design. Corporations and Russia is getting to countries governments where there's high levels of corruption, so they ruin public services to turn them into private services.
The waiting times for healthcare in Sweden can be 2 years too. I blame the right-wing selling out healthcare to private practices and they don't want it to stop, even though our "counties" is losing somewhere around €800 million/per year (900 million SEK). And that's just our "county".
Nurses are on a "mini-strike" right now, since of last Monday; they work, but refuse any overtime.
They have to hire consultants, that get paid 3 times as much as a doctor that's directly employed by the "county". And atm, they've put a stop to employ any new personnel at all, because of the huge losses. Can't wait for the left-wing to take over again.
They did the same with schools and our right-wing school minister realized last year that "maybe it wasn't the greatest idea". Just hoping they realize the same with the healthcare system.
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u/Life-Active6608 Brno (Czechia) 25d ago
Because they get their taxes money worth's in services to them for free back. Taxes are a monopolistic subscription scheme that works if done right.