(April 6, 2009 at 11:45 am)Tiberius Wrote: I don't see how you can claim Sweden is a socialist country when the company IKEA has a revenue of $28.8 billion, and several of the founders of that company are in the Forbes Rich list. Unless I'm mistaken, or bozo is mistaken, I thought a socialist country had a cap on how much people could earn, and that there were no "mega-rich" people?
I haven't really explain everything clearly. We are and were not a complete socialistic country. We mixed socialism and capitalism. We were on the other hand more capitalistic before then we have been recently. Especially with this new right wing goverment.
Anyhow, what I want to say what socialism and welfare have done for my country is that it has erased the working class and nearly all poberty.
Now when we are less socialistic and the welfare has been limited have the gaps between classes increased.
So Adrian there are super rich people since we have influences from both socialism and capitalism. However rich people pay a special tax called the "rich man tax" which is roughly about 50%. The income that big companies get also being taxed, don't how high the % is there.
Since we are a monarchy do we have 5-6 parties. For most of the time, atleast since the WWII and forward have "Socialdemokraterna" (Socialdemocrats) lead ower country. Which is a socialistic party. Which did wonders for this country which were one of europes poorest countries during the beginning of the 20th century.
