Why Swedish people like taxes

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09312qg/why-the-swedes-love-doing-something-that-americans-hate

by OSHA-Slingshot

25 comments

  2. To pay taxes and have a palpable and undeniable return on it. Most countries act like this is some kind of magic.

  3. Someone once said that tax is the price we pay for civilisation. I like that, give me more of that civilisation.

  5. TLDR Swedens government works, yours doesn’t. Git gud noob.

  6. Okay, I’ll be the one to say it – Swedish people don’t like taxes, and the fact that A LOT of swedes disagree with whether or not we get what we pay for/anything at all has been a major political issue for many years now.

  8. Because they get their taxes money worth’s in services to them for free back. Taxes are a monopolistic subscription scheme that works if done right.

  9. Average non nordic moment being flabbergasted about people accepting high taxes

  10. Image of lady looking out the window of a train is a nice touch, considering trains is one of the things that does NOT work in Sweden

  11. Ah, some British media piece with cherry-picked testimonies of why we all love being taxed!

  12. High trust homogenous societets tolerate high taxes because of reciprocal altruism, now were not a high trust society anymore so logically more people should be in favor of lowering taxes and welfare drastically.

  13. I like when my taxes go for actually important things like healthcare, education, infrastructure and maintaining a welfare system, not when it goes towards useless art projects or as aid to kleptocracies in Africa or the middle east.

  14. Because they receive things like services in exchange for them, is the short answer.  That’s the main difference.

  15. I would be happy about paying high taxes if in return I got good quality services such as extensive public transport and a decent healthcare system.

  16. I haven’t heared a single person say they like taxes in Sweden and ment it. 

    I’ve heard a rich socialist author say he likes to pay taxes, right before he was fined for not paying taxes correctly. 

  19. Like taxes!? I’m just taking a break from doing my declaration and I can assure you that there’s nothing more I hate than doing and paying my taxes. 

  20. Swede here.

    I would be ok with paying if my money was well spent. Currently we have major issues within many different areas like school results, shootings, health care etc…

    A lot of the money is just wasted (we like to throw money at problems thinking it will fix it) and exploited by criminals.

    I feel like swedes in general are not so happy about paying anymore when more and more things are getting worse.

  21. I met a few Swedes here and there during uni and I can’t imagine any one of them being excited to pay taxes… Hmm. I must be wrong, Swedes love taxes says the title. /s

  22. Because they have a high civic conscience and no corruption (if there is, it’s invisible), so people are happy to donate more money to the state in exchange for being well taken care of. Some of the highest taxes globally are in Scandinavia. Taxes are used efficiently and effectively. Unlike populist North America obsessed with privatization and tax cuts while corporations pay almost nothing to the society since Milton Friedman decreed that their only reason to exist is to maximize profits (aka keeping shareholders happy and give nothing to stakeholders).

  24. We don’t like paying taxes. This is a glaring propaganda piece by the BBC.

  25. We dont like taxes stop making shit up 🤣 it’s more like ”we accept them” , historically taxes been kinda good thing but that was a long time ago. Taxes today feel more like a scam because we don’t really get our moneys worth anymore.

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