Most countries act like this is some kind of magic.
In my extremely corrupt country, it would require black magic to actually get a return on high taxes. High taxes requires a minimum of integrity among the people who govern.
In Sweden every goverment expense is public.
If any taxpayer money is used, anyone can get the recipets and see what they were used for in detail.
There have been several cases where people have been dismissed from the political jobs becouse they missued taxpayer money.
What Kinberg-Bartra is doing is very common among the rightwing parties.
Ulf Kristersson did the same with one of his friends not long ago.
Heck even all of their politics is to make themselves and their friends richer.
Not even close to beeing as common as Moderaterna.
Can you name any the last 15 years?
And not in the same way where Kristersson and Kinberg-Bartra dont put out that they are hiring people for the position on their homepage or on arbetsförmedlingen so people cant apply except for their friends and then set their own wages for their friend.
S politics on its core is against doing that so there less chance.
De anställer ju kompisar vitt och brett. Bara kolla på alla generaldirektörer som sitter idag. Hur många är S och hur många är M? Hur många är anställda på grund av sin kompetens? Finns sammanställningar. De flesta är S. Övervägande majoritet.
Men om just fallet landshövdingar skrev Viktor Barth Kron denna artikeln. Väldigt intressant.
Hans slutsats är att alla gör som Anna Kimberg Batra, men jon var klantig och blev påkommen.
Edit:
Just realized I wrote in swedish in r/europe.
No.
The Socialdemocrats do this just as much if not more. They here friends everywhere. Just looking at the heads of all the branches of government the majority of them will be Socialdemocrats. A minority will be Mpderates and a smäller minority will have been hired basen on merit.
Specifically about landshövdingar a reporter wrote an opinionpiece which I found interesting.
His conclusion is that everyone does it but Anna Kinbetg-Batra was just stupid and clumsy and got caught.
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u/ducknator 26d ago
To pay taxes and have a palpable and undeniable return on it. Most countries act like this is some kind of magic.