For instance, in your example, 630k SEK is … checks notes… 66k USD, after which you pay *more than half your income* in taxes. Lololololol and they call me a fear mongerer. You could just go say that in a crowded room and scare more people than with a handgun.
If you don’t consider those taxes insane, you’ve never been free.
Haha ok keep thinking you’re free in America lol
Also it’s called tiered taxes so the additional 20% only happens AFTER 66k you still get the 66k at the lower tax rate. You don’t think those wages are liveable because they aren’t in America. But they are here. People who live in the major cities even with a higher marginal tax rate are
Earning more but everything else is still more affordable and there is an insanely good social net if anything happens. There’s a reason people aren’t leaving here en masse. Also if you’re self employed or run a business you can structure things to get better tax rates.
How is 32% HALF of my income? Do you know how math helps? If I make 630k SEK I’d pay around 200k SEK in taxes. And for those taxes? I get loads. Including every year 75k SEK and 50k SEK per tax paying adult in the house to put towards house improvements and house cleaning.