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In Sweden, the default is to make everything public, public domain style, so with income taxes for example, the amounts are public, but the sources of the incom
by jahaja 8y ago
In Sweden, the default is to make everything public, public domain style, so with income taxes for example, the amounts are public, but the sources of the income are not (because of personal integrity, not to be able to map military, police etc. employees).
A perhaps internationally unusual thing this creates is that entire police investigations, including interview transcripts, are usually available to download as soon as court proceedings begin.
- jdavis703 8y agoIt’s probably even more important to know income sources of government employees (I write this as a former employee of state and federal government). And FWIW you can lookup the salary of all federal employees, and that of government employees in certain states. As a side note, this transparency helps expose potential corruption in handling evidence, awarding defense contracts, etc.