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Green shoots: you'd better be grateful! | 54 comments (54 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

To get at the number 40% they included a few rich swedish citizens living abroad. Though 32% is still pretty high. Though according to the article, the official statistics claim it is 19%, and without links to the different calculations I am hesitant to just accept one sides explanation of the difference.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 10:03:34 AM EST
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Not just living abroad, having their tax residence abroad. They might still live in Sweden, especially if they are really rich as the government won't mess with them then. Just remember how billionaires were legaly exempt from the wealth tax, which ordinary people had to pay.

(The wealth tax for ordinary people was removed by the new center-right government after they took power in the fall of 2006).

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 10:07:12 AM EST
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Only the billionaires who owned more then X% of a company, worth more then Y SEK and founded their companies before Z date. Lesser billionaires were miffed.

Yeah, they could just as well have written the family names down and proclaimed them tax-exempt.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 10:24:02 AM EST
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Privilege, privi-lege... people usually don't think about it, but it literally means "private law"...

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 10:42:33 AM EST
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Starvid:

rivilege, privi-lege... people usually don't think about it, but it literally means "private law"...

Tax it.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 04:16:18 PM EST
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How?

I don't mean 'Using what methodologies?' I mean 'Using what political leverage?'

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 05:34:16 PM EST
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There's no conventional way. Privileged turkeys don't vote for Christmas.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 06:01:03 PM EST
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Tax the privilege of not paying taxes?

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by A swedish kind of death on Tue May 19th, 2009 at 09:32:18 AM EST
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