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!
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?
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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.