Åsa-Pia Järliden Bergström, and Torbjörn Hållö of the LO and mr Färm, on behalf from the Time of writing, we would like to take a little money ”from the schools, health care, and the care of the elderly”. However, it is possible to reduce the burden of taxation without reducing the resources allocated to the welfare system. With our proposal, the dynamic effects of the calculation excluding the tax burden would decline by three percentage points to 40 per cent, or somewhat higher than in the Netherlands, a country that can hardly be described as any neo-liberal dystopia.
However, the main point of what we are proposing is not, in the first instance, a discussion of the tax burden. Our skattereformsförslag show that it is possible to achieve a substantial reduction of the most damaging taxes – the company’s equity and high income and at the same time, reduce the tax burden at a level that, in a historical and international perspective, it is reasonable.
people talk about the green tax shift, however, the space is in fact small. The only environmental tax burden of the fiscal importance of gasoline and diesel, and the political appetite for further increases is probably limited.
the Author notes that our proposal will not affect the environmental taxes. It is a conscious choice, as we will see, these are, in the first instance, a part of the climate change policy, not fiscal policy. Many people talk about the green tax shift, however, the space is in fact small. The only environmental tax burden of the fiscal importance of gasoline and diesel, and the political appetite for further increases is probably limited. Sweden already has the world’s highest carbon tax in place. We have, however, in a different context, put forward a proposal for a more effective climate change policy.
. It is true that our proposal would be to increase economic inequality. However, there is a trade-off between growth and distribution, and, in our assessment, that the pendulum in the past has been overdone to much to redistribute. As a concrete example of this is the värnskatten, the eradication of which is now also in the ministry of finance said likely to be self-financing. Its size is more important than its distribution. All of the benefits of living in a society where it pays to work, get an education and to start and run a business.
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