Aspect wrote:
dankek wrote:
www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_current.jsp
www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Sweden
checkinprice.com/average-and-minimum-sal...in-stockholm-sweden/
I'm fairly sure that this kind of tax rate is reasonable, because of the amazing public services Sweden has. Also, if you check the cost of living and average income rates it's rather apparent that they live just fine. I don't know where you're going with this, and to quote the last article;
The average salary in Stockholm, Sweden is currently around 22.000 SEK after taxes. That is equivalent to slightly more than 2.500 US dollars per month.
It is important to stress on the fact that, despite the average salary in Sweden to be very attractive, the cost of living is also high. That is especially the case in Stockholm and its housing market. Finding an apartment in Stockholm can be at times harder than landing a job, as the capital currently faces a strong residential deficit.
Here is a nice picture displaying where the tax goes:
To the right on the leaves are the two only important: Medical care and Education. Things like pension is useless because you get less than you give (you work for 50 years to get maybe 50% of what you used to earn those 50 years, for 15 years before you die), why else would there be a system for it? Let those who wants to save their pension money save for their pension money - It's not a difficult concept to agree on. If you don't know how to save money well then you could have an organization handle them for you, but not everyone should be forced to follow the system is what i'm trying to say.
On the left we have useless crap like EU-Fee, Military, Culture, Welfare? These are useless, some might not seem useless but those problems would be solved if we had lower taxes.
The reason living is expensive is because Sweden has taken in the most amount of immigrants per capita. In Stockholm for instance that you referred to: There is a town amongst many others called Rinkeby. If you YT search that keyword you'll find some pretty self explanatory
videos.
Also this is off-topic but regarding Rinkeby we do have alot of rapes: In Sweden we have 3,47 Million out of 5,01 Million
Men that are considered 100% Swedish with Swedish parrents, those 3,47 Million
Men stand for 9.5% of the gross rape while the remaining 1.57m non-Swedes stand for the remaining 90.5% of the rape in Sweden. Quite ironic how we literally pay them to fuck our Swedish women, because if you couldn't have guessed it: 61,7% of the victims on this exact analysis are Swedish. Source (page 18+):
pjjonasson.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/s...e_och_i_utlandet.pdf I totally didn't expect this !!1111!111one!
I don't understand this notion of being xenophobic, it's a very stupid thing to be in a globalist world. The points further down will be pretty self-explanatory, I won't explain them now because I'm dead tired from working.
So, lets get down to some good ol' fashioned statistics;
In summary
Summing up, the literature on the effects of immigrants on economic growth, productivity, innovation, and trade is generally positive. Concerning innovation and productivity, fairly little research exists with respect to the case of Sweden, and clearly much more could be done. Conversely, there is already well-grounded evidence on the positive impact of immigrants on Swedish firms’ trade performance. One conclusion from the literature review is that most of these positive effects come from highly educated immigrants. Compared to other countries (especially Anglo-Saxon countries like the US or the UK), Sweden has not been targeting the highly educated. It must also be stressed that the tax system may have a negative impact on the possibility to attract individuals at the upper end of the skill distribution scale. In this respect, the Swedish tax incentive scheme for “foreign experts” may be a move in the right direction. However, in order for Sweden to remain attractive to foreign experts it might be necessary to reassess the design of this tax incentive.
You spend 27.1 % of GDP on
all types of Social expenditure, not "for immigrants" specifically.
Well, not really. This term caught on in international media after it was used by a columnist to label these areas, but police and emergency services have themselves repeatedly rejected it, arguing that these are areas with a higher police presence, if anything. That said, emergency services do often adapt their behaviour, for example by making sure that there is proper back-up, by entering the areas via alternative routes, or by reversing their vehicles into the areas in order to make sure they are able to leave quickly if needed. Emergency services have, for example, been exposed to threats, stone-throwing, or vandalism of their vehicles. But it's not black and white: often, nothing of note happens.
A fire chief in an area which covers some of northern Stockholm's most vulnerable suburbs, including Rinkeby and Tensta, told The Local earlier this year: “We don't have any no-go zones, absolutely not, the opposite in fact. We move around in all areas, with the same force, at the same speed. But sometimes we get indications, or see, that something is not right and then we take precautions.”
The number of reported rapes in Sweden has risen. But the definition of rape has broadened over time, which makes it difficult to compare the figures. It is also misleading to compare the figures with other countries, as many acts that are considered rape under Swedish law are not considered rape in many other countries.
For example: If a woman in Sweden reports that she has been raped by her husband every night for a year, that is counted as 365 separate offences; in most other countries this would be registered as a single offence, or would not be registered as an offence at all.
Willingness to report such offences also differs dramatically between countries. A culture in which these crimes are talked about openly, and victims are not blamed, will also have more cases reported. Sweden has made a conscious effort to encourage women to report any offence.
Read more about the legal implications of the term 'rape' (in Swedish):
www.notisum.se/rnp/sls/lag/19620700.htm#K6
www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistis...sundersokningen.htmlAccording to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention's Swedish Crime Survey, some 13 per cent of the population were the victim of an offence against them personally in 2015. This is an increase on preceding years, although it is roughly the same level as in 2005.
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention has conducted two studies into the representation of people from foreign backgrounds among crime suspects, the most recent in 2005. The studies show that the majority of those suspected of crimes were born in Sweden to two Swedish-born parents. The studies also show that the vast majority of people from foreign backgrounds are not suspected of any crimes.
People from foreign backgrounds are suspected of crimes more often than people from a Swedish background. According to the most recent study, people from foreign backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to be suspected of crimes than people born in Sweden to Swedish-born parents. In a later study, researchers at Stockholm University showed that the main difference in terms of criminal activity between immigrants and others in the population was due to differences in the socioeconomic conditions in which they grew up in Sweden. This means factors such as parents' incomes, and the social circumstances in the area in which an individual grew up.
Swedish government agencies have nothing to gain from covering up statistics and facts; they seek an open and fact-based dialogue. Sweden is an open society governed by a principle of public access to official documents. This means that members of the public, e.g. private individuals and media representatives, have the right to insight into and access to information about the activities of central and local government.
any questions? I'm fairly sure this is over.