Left Party caps MP pay with new 'party tax'

If they were ever elected, thay would do this to everyone else as well, so it's only fair.

They should now follow this rule all over the world..Footballers, Movie stars, Music industry! and put all the money in hospitals and education!

Swinglish that irrational... when you hold back income you hold back innovation and spending.... people cant spend what they dont have..... being forced to give you money to a cause we will inevitably read about in the papers associated with fraud waste and abuse is outrageous. No one donates in Sweden because they are taxed so much.... Americans are the least taxed in the world and donate more than anyone..... its YOUR money and you should be able to donate or save as much and to whom ever you want..... not give it to other people who perhaps didnt and dont work as hard

This is totalitarian. Recently I was rebuffed for saying the 'Left' were another type of communist party. Well, for once, I guess I was RIGHT. Deciding a flat wage for a diverse group of people is to ignore their different skill levels.

Greedy Communist Party officials.

I agree with RobinHood, and then Sweden would have no unemployment, no poor people, right wing fat cats, no homeless, no one on benefits, no right wing tax cheats and no idiots who want to play prime minister as they do now. Sweden would gain an envied economy, a world class welfare state, a world class education system and a world class infrastructure.

These are a bunch of people who do not anyway have better option than earn less than 27k SEK per month.

If the communists do this to their own, imagine what they would do to you

If it's required, then it's not a "donation".

WOW Guys you would all be shocked to know that the Australian Prime Minister Ms J Gillard receives more than President OBama ! Yes she is on over AUD$400,000.00 per annum ! and she is a lefty! can you believe it????

that's why under educated kids get into politics. THE money!

@ Great Scott #6

Your philosophy would promote a culture of human parasites who sit around and wait for others to do the work that needs doing.

Sweden would rot from within, as the USSR did, and eventually collapse, if you further erode any incentive for gainful advancement through hard work and innovation.

@Reason abd Realism

You obviously can't read, no unemployment, no poor people, no homeless and no one on benefits.

You have been misguided and misinformed, this makes people like yourself gullible to stories fed to you by the right.

@Great Scott

You obviously cannot read. Everyone in the USSR had 'a job' given to them by the state, so there was no unemployment, and this still led to the collapse of their economy (at best half the size of the US economy when things were 'good' there, even though it has a larger population, and the bureaucracy there today is still stiffling beyond belief).

In the same way that it is possible to be too far right, it is also possible to be too far left. Sweden is still left of center and could benefit from a rightward move, or at worst no further moves toward the left. The economy has done well here lately due in part to the so called right wing party being in power. But the after tax take home pay and buying power is still well below places like Canada for example, which also has free health care, and is not as right wing as the USA.

And incidentally I am not uninformed, having lived and workedand paid taxes for years in the USA, Canada, and Sweden.

The other problem with the left party cutting their own salaries is that, except for a handful of bright idealists, this will create a disincentive for many successful, innovative, and motivated people to stay with their party, or leave a job in the private sector to join their party.

It does not benefit the wealth of a nation to kill the incentive of those who are willing to work the hardest in order to prosper. If you think the Sweden is already too far right then it is you who is misinformed.

You people do know that Danmark is a Leftish nation, and they are rated the most democratic nation in the world (Gapminder)

And i can say that USA is Not a democratic nation, a nation where only 33% of the populace is voting is NOT Democracy.

And saying that a nation that proclaims to be communist actually IS communist is just pure idiocy.

If anyone here have ever read the Communist manifesto they would see that neither Northkorea, Soviet, China, is in any way a socialist nation.

Cuba: is on its way towards Marxism, leaving the so called "RealSocialism" (The name for the type of govern in the east-block)

Venezuela: Has a lot of steps left to become a real socialist nation, they have had a really good start, but a lot is too centralised and they need to place a bit more money on safety, since they aren't funding safety almost at all.

Argentina: Argentina has its own kind of left-"ish" ideology, i would personally not rate it communist since it puts a bit too much effort into military, and according to the manifesto, military should not in any way be a priority.

Cyprus: (The president of Cyprus is a Marxist-leninist) I dont know much about Cyprus since i learnt just recently that they where Communists. But since they are in a struggle between the invading Greece and Turks it would be pretty hard to keep order.

Nepal: Nepal's two biggest political parties are both Communists (Marxist-Leninist and Maoists) And from all my political studies Marxist-Leninist and Maoists are not the best of friends, only the only thing Marxists and Marxist-Leninist disslikes more then maoists are Stalinists (they hate each other)

Now, how do i know these things? Well i study! In Sweden (in difference to USA) we have no kind of patriotic or propaganda teaching where we have to swear fidelity to the flag and such, we are learnt to see behind the curtains of everything and not always believing what politicians says.

Just because someone proclaiming to be democratic dose not mean they truly are!

Just because someone proclaiming to be a Socialist dose not mean that they truly is!