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May 26, 2012
Sweden moots further tax cuts for wage earners
Published: 12 Apr 11 09:56 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/33158/20110412/
The four alliance party leaders announced in an article Tuesday that they are ready to push ahead with further tax cuts provided public finances continue to grow.
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“Growth is large and public finances are healthy. This opens up for reforms,” they wrote in DN.
This is the fifth stage in the centre-right government’s in-work tax credit programme (jobbskatteavdraget).
The plan is to cut taxes for wage earners by between 190 and 375 kronor ($27 to $54) per month, according to figures presented in the 2010 election campaign. There will also be a cut in VAT (moms) for the restaurant and catering industries.
“We see these as two central reforms to lower the threshold into the labour market, to increase jobs and to further more and growing companies. To make possible more work, not in the least for young people,” they wrote.
In preparation for the autumn budget proposition the Alliance party leaders also presented five focal points that they are looking at; continuing work for full employment, a robust financial system, a first class educational system, a high quality welfare set up, and durable growth in all parts of Sweden.
The tax cuts, which also include a reduction for pensioners, will be implemented in the autumn budget, and will come into effect at beginning of 2012.
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Interesting.
The Local needs an editor (I was going to say a "new" editor, but clearly they lack even one)...preferably one whose english isn't the third or fourth language they learned.
Governmemt run schemes are normally a waste of time or politically motivated. Give tax breaks to companies and/or training organisations who are the professionals.
The remedy of tax cut, works when there is a remedy to create job in parallel, or at least some signs of investment from somewhere to increase employment, otherwise just cutting tax will not bring employment automatically. I think the authority believes that job would be created by itself, if they just cut tax. Something likes a self regulating market.
Since 2008, even the most believers of M. Friedman don't believe in a self regulated market any more; but since Sweden with a high tax couldn't create new jobs, so the government has concluded that the tax should be cut to create new jobs, just like that!
If it's not black then it's white, so much can be expected from Swedish politicians.
1)People start earning (saving) little more money. This encourages one way or the other, which means some of the people will start their own side business.
2) Population will increase because the women (who are unemployed) have free time and nothing to do. So, they spend more time in romance. Which is good even though they are unemployed. As, either the state or their partner feeds them.
3) Youth also have more free time due to unemployment. So, they can just forget what is going on in the society and just spend time in leisure activities and take social money. They can suck the money as long as they are young enough to enjoy their time while the others are working their a** out.
4) People in Society who are unemployed do not need to care much as the load carriers will keep on carrying the load whole their life, while on the other hand the unemployed keep on su*king like parasites from other end by not worrying much.
5) Politicians keep on making changes either reducing tax or increasing tax. One government does this and the other does the opposite. The load carriers keep carrying one side and the su*kers su*k the other side.
It's possible to create new jobs just by cutting tax in some circumstances for example when the market is in increase need of labour like in the beginning of a bubble (the best example I.T bubble in mid 90s, or the beginning of a house bubble in USA in the early of 2000 after the crash of I.T bubble), but just cutting tax seldom works to create new jobs, especially in a deep global resection, which can fall in desperation (still nobody is sure!). The mass employment after 1930 desperation could just be managed by the war industry resulted from WWII.
You seem very sure about yourself as a person, who never loses your job. At present, I can tell you in some places in USA; there have been middle-classes, who had everything that a middle-class could imagine, a car, a house on mortgage, and a good job, but after the crash in 2008, they can't even manage to buy food. Can you imagine yourself to end up to such a situation? Many people with a job may end up to unemployment, it doesn't make them what you call su*ker. It's in the mechanism of market economy that some people lose jobs and some get jobs, or some people may never get job again, depends to the situation of market.
That should read:
"...between 190 and 370 kronor per HOUR..."
Nothing againts the tax cuts coz it'd be good for me too, but I have the idea that you have a simplist mind dude. U said "Restore Sweden to her great glory. Mona, Juholt and the likes of Palme must never again be given a chance to rule Sweden. Crush them and their failed policies! "
That is not true. I'm not saying that the alliance is bad, but everything has a right time and Sweden has been well known in almost the whole world for being a veeery cool place to live since decades before I was born ( I'm 32 ). So the failed policies you talk about are not so failed. And I don't really know what "great glory" you mean, coz before those policies you call failed, Sweden was another European country with neither fame nor disgrace.