Another fact worth pointing out in this discussion is that Sweden is doing great as a country, which makes it easier to maintain a high tax rate. The blue grap

Another fact worth pointing out in this discussion is that Sweden is doing great as a country, which makes it easier to maintain a high tax rate. The blue graph is inflation-adjusted disposable household income from 1950 to 2017: https://www.ekonomifakta.se/fakta/ekonomi/hushallens-ekonomi/hushallens-inkomster/ https://www.ekonomifakta.se/fakta/ekonomi/hushallens-ekonomi... Note that the disposable income doubled between 1997 and 2017. Also note that it is median income, which means that the outlier richest 1% don't distort the numbers very much. The average Swede doubled their disposable income in twenty years' time. Compare those numbers to the US, where the same graph is pretty much flat, because the only people getting richer in the past few decades has been the 1%.