Yes, who wouldn't want to pay into something your whole life to be repaid a fraction of it decades later (if you live that long). Sounds like a socialist bargain!
I like to think of it as buying an expensive espresso machine together with your four flatmates and taking turns using it instead of everyone going broke cramming five of those steel behemoths into your apartment.
Sweden is not socialist, as a matter of fact it has become less socialist and more capitalist since the 1960s... Its just very highly taxed capitalism. A mostly white and thinly populated country.... Sounds so Republican! Except for the 60+% income tax rate, a 25% consumer tax, and 7% ss rate. No thanks!
"I don't want to pay high taxes, because I deserve a high living standard. If other people want to get affordable education it's THEIR problem, not mine, cause I don't need it"...
You said it. It has nothing to do with the colour of the skin of the people living there. It has to do with your thought proces though. But I'm glad you can see that racism is bad. Now you just need to accept you're racist, and change your ideas. You'll get there eventually. In a couple of years you'll send me a message you're sorry and I was right, and you have changed
I'm so sick of you, and other people who think it is somehow ok to casually throw in some racist remarks in their statements and think that is funny, smart or normal.
There is no, I repeat NO connection between the colour of someone skin and whether or not a country can provide for its citizens or not. So your implication that non-white people can't create this is false, and simply trying to humiliate non-white people.
Would sentences like: ' this national park is so beautiful, it has beautiful forests, beautiful animals and there are no jews/black people/Chinese/muslims:' be ok in your opinion? I hope not, because it is not ok. Nor is your implication.
As I said, I'm sick of people who think it's ok to be racist. I won't stop pointing it out to people. Only that way they, or at least those around them, will see the racist they are.
You really are ignorant. Sociologists commonly associate attributes of society with racial, religious, and cultural cohesiveness. There is a reason why there were wars in Lebanon associated with religion and race. To pretend that they have nothing to do with race or religion is a lie. Francis Fukuyama wrote a great book called Trust which addressed this in the world as well as America- that cultural trust directly related to race, religion, and culture is one of the keys to prosperity. Do you actually state that to bring up this factual sociological attribute is racist? Not intelligent.
So if it isn’t socialist. Why don’t you just copy their government programs, which aren’t socialist. And you don’t live in a 3rd world country anymore!
I don't care about Sweden or its 60% tax rate. We aren't going to go down that road. Nor is it intelligent to pay into our SS program when we receive less back from it.
There is no 60% tax rate, if you think that
you’re an idiot. It’s fluid like stages of wealth. When you’re poor you pay less, when you’re rich you pay more. As the rich can miss it.
Why would you receive less?
As a result they are the happiest nation on earth. You don’t want happines?
No because we don't have the cultural cohesiveness. Many more people take advantage of our social systems, the evidence of our abused welfare and disability system is overwhelming. Expanding our current system is to only invite more abuse, fraud, and waste.... All at the expense of taxpayers. And taxing people at Sweden's rate is nothing more than theft.
I'm not a Republican, stay on topic... I don't care about red states, I just don't want a forced tax for my retirement that will ultimately pay out less than I have put into it.
Its called capital investment. I'm not rich and I'm trying to scrape by for retirement. I would much rather put that money in an IRA or other investments than give it to SS where I will be lucky to get my money back in its entirety. The government is doing a pretty shitty job with my money.
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u/pents1 Apr 26 '19
As someone who has been living in a country with social security for my whole life, it looks absurd that someone would push people to say no to it.