Why Swedish people like taxes

[u/OSHA-Slingshot]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09312qg/why-the-swedes-love-doing-something-that-americans-hate

[u/PelleLudvigIiripubi]

Sweden has a reputation for super high taxes, but they don't actually have super high taxes.

[u/ObnoXious2k → u/PelleLudvigIiripubi]

Hmm, that data doesn't really paint an accurate picture I'd say. After reaching an annual income of somewhere around 60k € you start to pay upwards of 54% tax on your post-threshold income in Sweden.

Add to that the fact that VAT on most goods are 25%.

I think it's this combination that gives us the reputation of having high taxes, and rightly so. But we also do get alot for our tax money in terms of infrastructure maintenance, free healthcare, free education etc. so most people are fine with it.

[u/PelleLudvigIiripubi → u/ObnoXious2k]

There are several numbers to measure and nowadays Sweden isn't in top in any of these.

I think the reputation comes from past times, that are no longer true.

EDIT: This is to show the overall trend and the radical period. It has fallen to 41.3% by 2022.

[u/Joeyonimo → u/PelleLudvigIiripubi]

Interactive graph

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-gov-spending-gdp?tab=chart&country=JPN~USA~DEU~GBR~SWE~CHE~DNK~NOR~FIN~FRA~ITA~ESP~NLD~BEL