They don’t have 300 plus kids going to school and getting shot-dead either. Only we have that currently, so stop the extremist politicians wherever you are.

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Live in The Netherlands. Had to go to the E.R. in Spain. Cost for treatment and medication: €0.90. Everything else covered by Dutch healthcare. And no hassle, just flash your EU health card.

And it’s not tied to employment.

That is the most important thing!

I would like to join. Where do I sign up.

One doesn't go broke if sick. Women don't loose their job if pregnant. Etc. That's a social net, not to be mistaken with socialism.

Germany here, we have around about the same.

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"Good stuff. It sounds so familiar." -- Canada

Say it again louder, so the people in the back of the classroom can hear it.

As it should be everywhere. BUT theres obstacles to these White supremacy movement is strong in USA . Add that to a melting pot population, with thousands of tribes. Add the large # of psychopaths (big business, politics)

Canada too. The U.S. is the outlier.

The problem is the USA has states with significantly larger populations than Sweden, AND much more demographic diversity. Trying to unify the UNITED states has been an ongoing problem.

I give you India, biggest democracy in the world, Indonesia 270 million, even china at a stretch... The problem the us has is chronic self interest with no will or leadership to change.

Sounds like your main problem is trying to be one country when the drawbacks far exceed the benefits. Europe might have an EU but each country is still their own country. If all of Europe tried to unify like the US it would be just as screwed up.

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You represent all that most here want. I want my tax money to undergird society and provide security for all. I do not want to be paying interest on a never ending expansion of national debt as most of the fruits of our labor engorge the wallets of the already fabulously wealthy.

So obviously the only right way to run a country it makes me want to weep.

Sounds good to me!

Yeah, Europe is a bad place. Full of socialists and communist 😂 There is no reason whatsoever that people in US cannot have the same as Sweden. Except for the people who run the show. And the folks who vote for them.

The health Is a very big business in USA. For European socialdemocrats is a public service.

Besides the big business, it is mostly a massively ineffective system with middlemen taking lots of money.

Sweden also has greater protection for women. Men can't get away with harassment and abuse.

Amen.

Can we join?

MAGA people would never get past the first few words to realise how it could be

Sure, rub it in. Seriously, how can the wealthiest country in the world continuously shoot themselves in the foot and not adopt national healthcare.? Besides corrupt Republican politicians and lobbyists pouring hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it on behalf of the medical machine and pharma

Wish I lived in 🇸🇪 Sweden‼️

Save me a spot.

Thank you Sweden 🇸🇪 Reminding USA what we should be if it wasn’t for the greed of so many oligarchs!

In America your life is $. That sucks.

Yup. Many in the USA have been trying really hard to have universal health insurance but the insurance lobbyists propaganda and funding to legislators, smother out voices.

The propaganda machine regarding national Healthcare and gun laws are the two where the most time and money are invested, penetrating deeply into American culture, in every socio-economic it has permeated into the very fabric of life. I Work in healthcare, it is entrenched even there.

The Old Guard 💂 Must Go. #wemuststartover

Also just stupid people. At a family function my brother in law was bragging about he didn’t have health insurance because he healthy and can use the emergency room and if he’s hurt at work he has workman’s comp to cover everything. He’s not alone in his way of thinking where I am.

He's a fool. One catastrophic event and he will be broke .

Am curious. Does BIL belong to a union? Did he vote the menace into voice this go-round? A republican governor in my state ended work’s comp for its state employees years ago. He best be careful, given his plan of action b’cuz all good things come to an end.

I have had one medical event cost me 3 years of my life and over $30k, and I HAVE good insurance Just Ugh

Indeed…

3 years and $30k is NOT good insurance. They want you to believe that’s good insurance

If only we can move there!!!

Stop making us jealous.

Yeah, but can your kids hide under a desk really well?

We would be well on our way to the same programs that benefit human life, but NO! The pretty brown lady, with more credentials & experience at governance than the entire GQP wasn’t acceptable. Instead, we got #FascistFatloaf again, because we are a country of selfish, apathetic morons!

You forgot bigots and racists 😊

Oops! Yeah…bigots & racists, too! 👍

Yes, all this!!

Oh yep, just had a rant. I meant them too…

We must start over, everyone must go. From the regime to the complicit dems, to the Supreme Court, to the news media aka state run tv to the chicken crap senators, paid for judges, lawyers…all of it burn it down and begin again. From the beginning.

I’m jealous! Your country treats their citizens with dignity.

And lovely people❤️

All my bags are packed and I'm ready to go.

I so wish I had Swedish ancestors and could seek refuge there! America could EASILY adopt these same principles and ALL our citizens would be happy and healthy! It’s called taxation of the wealthy and corporations !!!!!

If they'd take American refugees and had a path to full citizenship I wouldn't even wave goodbye.

In reality that is called social democracy but like always Americans have a problem with terms and manipulate words so they have created "democratic socialism" that doesn't exist anywhere just to keep using words as a disinformation tactic...

Sweden has a much smaller population, which allows it to do this a little easier than it would in the US. But there’s no reason that we can’t make significant changes.

Yes

We HAVE to do this. There is no other way

This is consistent with where FDR was trying to take the New Deal and was resented and resisted by the up and coming billionaire class and their millionaire minions. Is there any double as to why the GOP and their billionaire benefactors are pushing this anticommunist/antisocialist nonsense? Profits

I live in the richest county in the world and we ain't got shit.

Well, the top 1% has it all!

Sweden has educated ppl with critical thinking skills who elect capable politicians who work for the good of ppl & country. USA has 10s of millions of ppl who r poorly educated, many indoctrinated with hate/fear in their predatory churches on every corner & ordered to do as told or hell awaits. Sick

Overall CoL is lower too.

When someone calls me a socialist, I thank them for the compliment.

Saw a young educator from Texas who moved to Canada. He was talking about the difference in attitude towards the start of the school year. He also mentioned that he picked up 3 months worth of his medication for $24, and he's not on a healthcare plan yet.

He is welcome here. The key difference in attitude, in my opinion, is that we care for each other. 🇨🇦

He has nephews in Canada and the US, and he said the difference in their attitude towards school is night and day. But he said he couldn't ask his girlfriend to move to the US, because he wouldn't be able to explain to her parents if she were killed in a mass shooting.

Sounds like a nice young man

Yes, and seemingly very relieved to be in Canada. I wish I could've shared his video.

Too many Americans can’t stand that they would have to care for POORS THAT DONT DESERVE IT. Also not white.

“I like my insurance fine (that my employer pays for, mostly) we can’t afford to coverall Those People! If we do the GUMMINT will take my doctor away and MAKE ME WAIT 😭”

Let's be more like Sweden !!!

You are all fortunate. You have been blessed with caring adult communities.

Yet Americans think this would be a definite threat to their rights … even when you consider it gives them more rights. There is a strange ideology that having the same rights as your neighbours is almost unacceptable and to achieve the American dream requires standing on someone else’s.

Because they don’t have a large group of people they have to concurrently keep those things from. As the west continues to destroy the global south and more cullid folk “invade” their land, this will change.

War is coming and quickly too... the preparations are well underway.

One of the best countries in the world if not the very best

I'm so jealous.

They manage it with a wealth tax. American oligarchy will start a war if you tax them! Don't call it tax but call it philanthropy.

You could call it a tariff...

This is what America should be.

Same here in Austria! 💓

My great-great-grandmother immigrated to America from Sweden. What are the odds they'd let me reverse that decision? 😅

I would love to have all this in the US.

ONE YEAR maternity leave??!

Same in Canada.

In Spain Is 16 weeks.

In Spain Is 16 weeks.

Canada is up to 15

That is 15 wks

Yeah, but that’s just maternity leave. Parental leave kicks in after that, can be used by either parent (1 at a time) and extends the leave to 1 full year. You can extend it to 1.5 years, but you don’t get more money. It’s just stretched out longer.

Thanks. I’m Canadian but I had my last child in the mid ‘80’s. It was good then but changed so much & for the better since then.

Goals for our nation.

Canada too 🇨🇦

The support offered to Sweden citizens is what Bernie Sanders has called for yrs. The US is the richest nation in the world, yet it fails to provide the same basic support to its own citizens. There’s no excuse—the US continues to prioritize corps & profits over the quality of life of its people.

Because we MUST provide exorbitant support for THE HARD WERKIN JERB CRATERS or they will go to Galts Gulch. Or some island.

The people need to engage in year round politics and work in their local areas to elect the people that will make this happen. It all starts in local politics at the bottom. We the People haven’t done the required work to make it happen. Now would be a good time to start. There are 2025 elections

It's not freedom until you can wank over your vast collection of AR-15s. - Written in a sarcastic font

America has been a 3rd world country for a long time and that's the way the oligarchs like it.

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Uh, and you also have strict immigration rules and well documented institutional racism to keep black & brown people ( especially Muslims) in check.

The US is too big and sprawling and filled with deep regional divisions. It is far easier to have consensus in a fairly small country that is quite tightly-knit. The US can't agree on what it is or what it stands for.

I live in USA. Most everything is owned by the greedy oligarchs who are constantly raising the prices for food, health care, fuel, education, shelter, and just about everything else it takes to live a life. Meanwhile, wages and benefits are stagnant and taxes are up, unless you are rich.

The solution to high pricing is high pricing. At some point when the greedy have sucked the nation dry there will be no more to gain or take from fewer and fewer slaves to them. Their greed becomes a killing field.

This is basically what fascism is. Eventually they run out of words to convince you to give them more money, so they just start blaming minorities and fleecing the people while they cheer on about masked police forces brutalizing the Jewish population. Or in our case, the Mexican population

I think we are there now.

A hospital stay, even 1 night, with insurance after our 7,500 deductible will still bankrupt us or use up a vast majority of our savings. Shame!

Damn! If that's not an incentive to move to Sweden, I don't know what is lol

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Most 1st world countries are similar. bsky.app/profile/late...

For those Americans who are saying 'we could have that too except for...' and then blaming greedy capitalists, poor governance, too much spending on the military. The real reason you don't have what Sweden, Canada and many other countries have is because you keep electing Republicans.

Our last president was a Democrat just FYI

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Socialism is the answer. Its the only path to a better life. Help eliminate the BOOMER democrats and DO NOT SUPPORT THEM IN ANY WAY

Yeah but it is Sweden. No big beautiful hurricanes and tornados. Deadly heat. No rain where you need it.

Be fair now. There’s always rain here whether you need it or not.

Yes and some pretty good hockey players.

Ah the motherland

Your Hospital care is fantastic but what do you expect from a country that is ladened with capitalist, money hungry sorry ass sons of bitches.

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Blue states should just join Sweden as provinces

Jealous...

Americans will say that is no way to live, we like going broke over healthcare and sending our money to nations that like to kill. War and killing is much more important than looking after our own people.

Consider yourself blessed. In America we deny ourselves those great benefits because billionaires tell us to! 🤔

How? By lies, lies and more lies! Current Administration, Corporations and NRA are incapable of speaking truth and anyone over age 10 should be taught this!

My 14yo has known this since Trump's 1st administration. I think everyone over age 10 who lives outside of America knows this, and many below 10 years old as well.

chump only cons those who never feel the need to get a passport.

To be fair, passports are expensive and require quite a bit if paperwork to obtain...since Travel outside of the US is also expensive there a great many people who will never be ABLE to obtain a passport. I Get your point, but it's something to consider.

Good lord! We live below the poverty line, but both my son and I have passports. Because...you never know when you might need it. One day, when Trump is dead and trust restored, we may need them to visit America. I'm guessing you don't need them to visit Canada? Or Mexico?

Oh, I have a passport and until recently they have not been required to visit Mexico, I'm unsure regarding Canada, but I did not obtain a passport until I was in my 40s...

I have one but if i leave im never coming back. Good riddance trump is the ugly of america brought into light. As much as we like to think we are a civilized proper nation it is all an overpriced, propagandized, facade

I worry we are witnessing the decline and fall of American hegemony. As a Canadian, I'm very afraid of sharing the world's longest undefended border with Russia #2. Hold onto that passport. When Trump starts up a concentration camp company, come north. You can hide in my basement.

Thank you for stepping up to take immigrants that are escaping tyranny!

Thank you and I’ll hold you to these words! Can I have some made-in-Canada maple syrups in that cozy basement of yours? I’ll do cleaning in exchange :).

Maybe im being a bit too optimistic and i for sure felt the same way ive actually been prepping to leave for a while now but with trump having died this weekend i feel like things will get better sooner rather than later.

Ummm, I fear Vance will be more powerful than trump!

If only...

And reality is there are many who’ve never been more than 100 miles (or less) from home

True, but the US is giant, I recently went on a 4000 mi road trip and never left the country

There’s 43,000 square miles in my province. It’s about 4,200 to the other coast of Canada. In both countries we have people who never leave their hometown, ever.

While I'm sure there are some people who never leave their hometown, I have trouble believing it's the majority, or even a significant percentage (say, greater than 15%). Canadians have the highest rates of postsecondary education in the world (60+%). A lot of those people leave their hometown.

It’s not the majority, but the loud minority know how to manipulate the ones with such lack of experience with the world at large….

In today's mobile society, that is depressing. Everyone should: A) try a post-secondary education and/or B) travel internationally for a year at least. I understand poverty (trust me) but that's a reason for ignorance, not an excuse to avoid opening one's mind.

Travel and education are so important.

because many billionaires are saying WE CAIN FOR DIT!

As Russian Republicans move the USA into a version of Putin's new Communism.

Yeah well we dont have any of those things ...but we are getting a big golden ballroom

These days am upset at my g-grandparents leaving Denmark, Norway and Scotland for this travesty of a government-a danger to us and the world!

You don't seem to have a culture built on race hatred to hold Sweden back. The US leadership systems have always hated Black and Native people so much that they pass laws that destroy the lives of 10 White people as long as 1 Black person is destroyed in the process.

Wake up America 🇺🇸

Love this!!! ❤️🙏 that would be too normal for these demented fascist that are in the White House! God, I just wanna move to where you guys are

Sigh. Sounds Wonderful.

I admire the Swedish people and their system of government. We could have that in America too, if people here weren't so greedy.

outstanding ideas but there’s a reason sweden is such a major outlier sweden has a very small ethnically and religiously homogeneous population even the uk germany and france face demographic challenges to socialist policies that simply don’t exist in sweden and the rest of scandinavia

None of that is actually true tho. Come visit one of the major cities in Sweden and you'll notice a wide diversity in both areas.

an 80/20 split is massive plus most of those people arrived long after the socialist state was established

If looking across the entire nation, sure. Looking at the urban centers and the numbers differs vastly. And we don't have a socialist state? Not that diversity would be a hindrance to it or social-democracy (what we actually have)

No wonder they are considered the happiest people.

Works for me. And every other thinking person. Apparently

It CAN be done. And those who say it can't are lying.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

It's the same here in Australia, except a nights hospital stay didn't cost me anything at all..

This is what I am in favor of for all of us no matter who !

Monsters in power are a huge part of the problem as well as have zero no criteria for becoming high level figures. Yes. Sweden has done well, many more ought to take note and learn. Sadly I believe mother Earth has had enough.

More or less the same in the Netherlands.

Biker gangs, immigrant crime, lots of extreme right. Not so perfect country

Yeah america has really gone to the dogs hasn't it?

And we admire all of the above.

Total jealousy

Sounds like you guys got tough

Bravo 👏 Sweden 🇸🇪! 👏💪🇸🇪😎✊

Read it and weep, Americans. We could have this, too, without oligarchs running the country.

We have more than a year of parental leave in Sweden.

Is Sweeden accepting request for citizenship from liberal old American Vets & their families who only speak English because of the poor-quality American education system?

But far right parties are growing all over scandinavia too 😕 and the normalization of hate speach from the WH clown doesnt help at all

I’m going to become an immigrant and move to Sweden.

Denmark too with a few differences

Looks like they got it right 👍💯

Brilliant Bravo!

We can't have this, because half of America is so freaking dumb. Disgusting traitors.

How hard would it be to learn to speak Swedish?

Swedish and English are both Germanic languages, so it's considered fairly easy for English speakers to learn by linguists. Although some English speakers attempting to do so would very much disagree.

Both Swedish and Norwegian is pretty hard for English speaking . Greetings from Norway 💙💙

Swedish is known to be quite difficult as a second language but having a germanic language (English) as a base should help.

Most Swedes speak English. AND another language as well.

That little detail does not invalidate the need to learn Swedish if you want to move to Sweden.

I have a good head start, I can read and write some Swedish, and speak a little (with a really bad accent). I'm more than willing to make the effort if they'd only take me in.

They probably speak it better than we do.

I guess it depends on what you find hard or easy, but in relative terms for language learning? Pretty easy. It is Germanic like English though English is different because of all the other influences, there is common ground to be found.

But avoid stuff like Duolingo because they're designed to keep you hooked & not to be good at teaching you a language. It will make the journey seem harder & longer than it actually is.

looked it up it costs $2 trillion a year now for healthcare Yet if they made it single payer free healthcare for all & immigrants Would cost $2.1 & $2.4 trillion 4 dental everything prob is greedy healthcare company's would shut down👍 over the years it should cost less bc population gets healthier

A quick note here I worked out how much it costs for trump to play golf on the Tax payer dime it works out to be $450 million $110 million a year and $2 billion to kit out the present from QATAR $2.45 billion till 2028 that's some serious wastage Yet the poor lose their healthcare

Are you saying it would cost more if they stopped funneling billions into insurance companies? That doesn't sound right?

Everything is done by the Gov and is paid for by your taxes you already subsidize the system to the tune of 2 trillion though taxes etc It would cost more but the insurance company's get nothing cost is an extra 1/2 a trillion & Everyone is Covered for Free & the insurance companies get 0

But why would it cost more? Without the insurance companies taking billions, surely it would cost less?

No one gets declined for anything thats how I Companies make profit it would cost more because every Every Person in America working not working immigrant visitor would be covered right now 85% are covered but not full coverage & will be 20 million less after Big BS Bill

There is no way for greedy healthcare providers to change $100 for an aspirin if they did that how would they make money from the poor persons misery this is America the rich rob and steal & roam the streets and the poor go to jail last last week it was a subway sandwich a felony it seems

This is among the best in the world but even Canada can claim these things or something similar. The fact remains: The USA is committed to assuring the wealthy (& their corporations) make money off the poor. The 🇺🇸 will never have healthcare; it’s a license to print $$ for shareholders & the rich.

And some gorgeous blondes 👏👏

Feel free to move there.

Only in America is corporate greed at and all time high with crooked felon politician's running the charade and big business taking more and giving less to the worker's. It's time to Unionize all big businesses and go on strike!! Remind owners who does the work for them!!👍🇺🇲

Sounds heavenly

This is the American dream

The US runs on money and individualism, sink or swim. Sweden runs on societal benefits and a balanced life. Certainly it’s not utopia, they’re still human after all, but compared to the US it is.

The Scandinavian system is THE BEST

Please!

Apparently this isn’t freedom

We could accomplish all this overnight by cutting our defense budget in half.

And by taxing the wealthy and corporations.

I don't see our military beating people up on the streets.

Ice's budget is 9.1 billion

Make more tax dollars if you pay everyone a living wage.

Oh to be More Like Sweden!

LETS GO. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO IN THE US👎👎👎😠😠😠😠GET RID OF THE RETRUMPLICANS

Thankyou for sharing G reed stops us from having it here we can not sastifym the selfish billionaires

Someone should send this to Suozzi

Same in Germany 😉, but some people say, we live in a communist country.

There are a healthy number of nations that have shown this middle-of-the-road approach to work well. Which of course, puts the lie to the American knee-jerk response of "All capitalism is good and fine and all socialism is horrible and evil!"

The foundation sets the success of what is built on it.America built on the backs of people who would never truly belong.It was set by the white wealthy, who could afford justice and a seat at the top.The years trying to set right the building costly, slow.Now the rich want it all, everything.

Gotta down play their communist leanings every time I guess. It's okay to be pro worker ffs 😂

Kind of remindd me of Canada where I live. 👍🇨🇦

I vote Illinois joins the Denmark or Norway federal government

I'm an American. We get none of that. And our government is rapidly turning fascist and has already nationalized 10% of a major corporation. Just know that we will have an internal resistance and it's only the few that profit that really approve of what's happening here.

On the other hand, I couldn’t afford to live there. Renting an apartment costs more than my retirement check. It’s double what I get in benefits.

You have a bad retitement check 😂 Still you have to pay in to this system to get the benifits

Whether you pay into the system knowing that anytime you need to be hospitalized or need med. care. you do not have to worry about it.

True! Medlcare is almost free here and is sort of a human right. It is a strange system in the US. No excess tax rate either. Almost all pay around 30% No Wealth tax, no inherent tax. Low tax on owning a home, childcare is 125 usd/month Tax on capital is 30%

I long for America to collectively evolve up to this level.

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Maybe the blue states can do this for their citizens? Obviously, the red states don't want comfort.

…sigh.

I’d wanna live there if it weren’t so cold!

All my life, I've heard the old stupid trope repeated over and over again. "America is the greatest country on earth." How about this? "Americans are the stupidest, most gullible people on earth."

CORRECTION! Some of us!

Correction :Half of you…

FUCK ALL WHITES

American workers are treated worse than any other developed country.

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We all could learn to do this for all people and spend our time being creative in solving societal and environmental problems and challenges.

Indeed. It would definitely be a long-term effort. Baby steps to get started and let people see how Dem-Socialist policies actually do benefit them directly. New York City may become our first look if Mamdani becomes mayor. Just like new meds, small group testing first.

Honey, pack up the house. We're moving to Sweden.

Wait till they find out what she gets paid.

Narrow-minded people (racists) would say that this is possible because of your homogeneous population and the lack of diversity. I have heard this said about Japan, and other small, well run nations with good social policies.

Anyone who calls Sweden homogeneous have never been here. Especially the 3 biggest cities, Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö are all very diverse.

Off-topic, but there is a reactionary conservative movement in Sweden that laments diversity, is there not? "Back when Sweden was Sweden" is something that I've heard.

Yup, one of our largest parties is a far-right party reminiscent in many ways of the Republican party of the US. Needless to say, I'm not a fan.

Canada is similar! U.S. citizens should be damn angry! Your entire government has been coasting

But but but Merikkka rather fund the DOD at the annual cost of $1 trillion to tax payers.

We could have the same, if it became a priority.

America could have that also if we didn’t have greedy wealthy stealing all the money

and the sweeds are considered rightwing in europe

I'm moving to Sweden 🇸🇪!

So scary. Doesnt she realize by helping ALL their citizens equally she cant feel superior to anyone

Now what do you know 🤔 Imagine that 🤩

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That's fine, but you also have only a paltry 45 billionaires.

Per capita plays a role toward a positive outlook in the US.

Very positive if you're above a certain income level. Deadly if you're below it. A prof once said to me, "statistics are like bikinis, fun to look at but they hide the really interesting stuff.."

Yes, please! I’ll take it!

I do envy you and also how HAPPY you are…… ugh. We are fighting , and winning on some fronts . Hard when all of your leadership didn’t “ THINK “ it would happen. When both houses and a high court side with 18th century thinking. It’s up hill . We’re getting there . Stand up Do your part

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank... Sweden ranks #4 as one of the happiest countries in the world. The USA ranks a dismal #23. I'd say after Trump gets done Making America Great Again, we'll drop another 30 points or so...

And you have a 50% income tax. I've been to Sweden and could never live there as I found it dull. But that's just my opinion. The most interesting thing in Sweden is the Vasa.

Wrong. Income tax is not 50% but obviously you pay tax, which in the end benefits everyone. Any price you see on food or items are w. tax included. What's on the price tag is what you actually pay. You don't need to set money aside for paying tax as that's already done when you get your salary.

Really? My friend Angelo and his wife [she was Swedish) moved back from Sweden because they were paying 50% income tax. And in my other post I state that the VAT is included in the price. It's 25% on goods. It's why things are expensive in Sweden. I've been there. Have you?

"The cut-off point indicates at what income level one begins to pay state income tax. For the income year 2025, the cut-off point is SEK 643,100 per year, which corresponds to a monthly salary of approximately SEK 53,600 before tax."

So as a "normal" tax payer you don't pay 50% tax. The rich pay more tax ;)

Income tax rate of 20% over $66k. There's also a Municipal tax on ALL earned income and no exemptions - everyone pays it from 29% to 53%. The average is 33%. So even if you make a low salary you're paying at minimum 29%. If you make say $70k you're paying 53%. There's also a 30% Capital gains tax.

I pay 31% and am ok with that as it benefits all, and there may come a day when I need something and it’s there for me <3

So it works for you because of your lower income you only pay Municipal tax. What about those who pay both? They'd be paying 51% in your area. 🤷‍♀️

Add up sales taxes, property taxes, income taxes, & fees for services that used to be free, then add what we pay for healthcare, medicine, & education, wage earners in the United States end up paying much more than 50% of their income just to have a small part of what the EU & Nordic countries have.

Not quite. Sweden is expensive as it has a whopping 25% VAT (sales tax) already added into the price of goods. 12% for food. They also have property tax. Albeit it is very low. Rent can be high. WTF is fees for services that used to be free? 🤷‍♀️ Higher education is free. (Which Biden wanted to do...

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Requesting public & personal records from the county was free, now there are fees. Small businesses have to pay fees that didn’t exist 10 years ago & increase every year. Every bond issue adds to property taxes. Lots of places have VAT, but food is still less expensive than in US.

NYC has always had record snd business fees. Do you live in a small town? Eating out in Sweden seemed expensive. Shopping was expensive. That was my experience. Also, Sweden has 10M people, we have 360M. Sometimes systems for a small population do not translate well to a much larger population.

I’ve been fees, yes. But not as many or as high as there are now. Those of us who do genealogical research are in the thick of it. www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/access-alert

Most people request these records as legal proof of birth or death so they don't pay professional use fees.

...here with community colleges) Healthcare is cheap but not 100% free. There are minimal fees - co-pays, hospital stays, specialists fees, etc. You pay for prescription drugs but there is a $250 yearly cap. Swedish government sets drug prices (which we can/should do here). Plus 50% income tax.

ALMOST IDENTICAL TO HERE IN CANADA! Now do you understand why Canadians feel safer trading with Europe and NATO countries who are more likte minded?

Many European countries function like this.

Parental leave, not maternity leave. The dads stay at home with their babies too.

Meanwhile the mention of any of those is met with outrage

Socialism was so successful It allowed capitalism, what we did not realize is how corrupt political lawyers could destroy it all.

Why would we want to be 51st state when we are in a country with similar benefits to Sweden, oh and I forgot it cost me 3200$ per year for my daughter tuitions at university, explain to me why....

I live in Canada and just fought and won my battle with breast cancer. Total cost: less than $100.00 for parking, $0.00 for medical procedures, and a small amount for coffee.

Parking can be brutal. At my local hospital & Drs clinic parking is free. I’m looking forward to the Federal Liberal Gov expanding pharmaceutical health benefits.

I often say "Let's be more like Denmark." I think "Let's be more like Sweden" also works.

I think it doesn't really matter. There's probably only minor differences, but you don't get ruined only to see a doctor. Of course there are downsides as well. In recent years the rent have skyrocketed. A good portion of your salary goes only to pay rent if you rent an apartment.

Sounds wonderful! Wish I could move there.

I’m incredibly envious.

Does she have any space to rent ?

Life. Can be good

...and that trend's pretty much the same throughout Europe. Free/lo-cost cradle-to-grave healthcare is NOT a privilege. It's an absolute guaranteed right for EVERYONE regardless of age/gender/wealth/sexual orientation. The American public have been screwed by BOTH parties for way too long.

This is the truth! I compare Sweden with the situation in US and can only say; You must do everething you can to take trumpadmin away as soon as possibel!

These are good things. Absolutely. I won’t argue against that. The trouble is America is sadly stricken with deep racial and demographic diversity divisions, conflicts and brewing tensions that make a more unified government social system difficult to set up and maintain, in my opinion. 🇺🇸

Norway here, same..

America can also have nice things once we get rid of rethuglicans and conservaturds.

Why the $10? Seems like such a small amount would cost more to manage and administer than just including in the benefit.

Even though Swedes pay much more in tax, asking for a ten dollar payment would not have them feeling like it's a giveaway, if it were completely free (of additional costs).

In America, it’s profits before people☹️

I can't conceal it Don't you see? Can't you feel it? Don't you too? I do, I do, I do, I do, I do

Exactly !!!a good country takes care of its people..Trump and the religious right pretend to be ‘Christian’ but they are as far away as you can get from that..They only want the rich to survive..

So very similar to Scotland but NOT England.

....and I love your cars too.....sigh.

Koenigsegg Regera 🥰

Yeeesssssss, omg. Also, in the more plain everyday rides......my Saabs. Crazy love affair, alas, broken-hearted.

Sadly, I don’t think there any left that are Swedish owned. If I remember right, Saab turned into Scandina, owned by VW and the others that spring to mind are all now owned by Chinese car companies. Koenigsegg is still Swedish though. :)

SAAB is no more. I think you are thinking about the trucks and that is something else

Saab still produces fighter jets even if they don't produce cars anymore.

Same name ,two different companies

The cars were a division that was sold off. They used to advertise the cars as being from a company that made fighter jets, it was even in the commercials.

Yeah! Perfect for commercials, using the legacy. This was a long time ago and SAAB automobile went bankcrupt 2011. Buy a JAS39 Gripen!!

Well aware.

Ahh you could be right.

Turned into NEVs, China-based. Last year of production sent to the US was 2011. I have a 2010. Supposedly, Koenigsegg was thinking of buying them after GM cut them. They went out fighting, God bless them. The SCNA is very active. P.S. The Phoenix concept car would have blown everyone away.

You ain’t kidding.

There are a few videos on YouTube about it.

And this meme explains exactly why I became independent-lean Progressive before it was in vogue. Bernie follower. Today I constantly pitch the idea of political evolution for the democratic party. MAGA evolved out of Republicans, Democratic-Socialism can be the next step for younger dems/indies.

So depressing because I KNOW that Americans could have that life if we had a majority of decent, ethical people in our government.

In a democracy, this majority of decent, ethical people in government needs to be voted for by ordinary people, though. And they seem to be rather clueless....

We do not have a democracy. If you watch even the DNC they carefully handpick who can even run. We will need a third strong party or a revolution to change things.

It seems to be based on “campaign financing” or who collected the most $ from oligarchs. Of course then if you want to keep your cushy seat - you are beholden to your oligarch who dictates what you do and say. And the oligarchs want to freeload and steal your money and freedom - and yall let them.

A 3rd party this coming election will guarantee that GOP will maintain control of Congress and the shit storm will continue and grow.

Americans can't have "nice things" like this because of the Republican party and the corporate predators.

The Republican party and the corporate predators are why we Americans can't have "nice things" like this.