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Easy to make a snarky comments at Democrats US who always love to say “Follow the Nordic Model” “Follow Scandinavian countries” on almost every topic... Safe to
by euio757 4mo ago
Easy to make a snarky comments at Democrats US who always love to say
“Follow the Nordic Model” “Follow Scandinavian countries” on almost every topic... Safe to say they wouldn't agree here.
But serious question here: What happened in Sweden that lead to this parliament move?
- bwhiting2356 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats rightward shift
- ochrist 4mo agoJust guessing it has to do with this: https://nri.today/swedens-crisis-immigration-bloodshed/ https://nri.today/swedens-crisis-immigration-bloodshed/
- sakex 4mo agoToo much immigration too quick, people got fed up from what I gather
- jalapenoj 4mo ago[flagged]
- satvikpendem 4mo agoEurope in general is seeing a reversal in their philosophy towards migrants, especially from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey (MENAPT is the acronym governments use). It's probably the lack of integration into the host cultures and ghettoization of many areas. Japan is doing something similar too to the article.
- dataflow 4mo agoI imagine they don't want to end up where the US is now. Edit: is reality too upsetting for folks? Hopefully nobody was asleep when American candidates ran on immigration policy, their constituents voted based on that, and we ended up with the current politicians and the overall status quo? Or do people not see a causal chain here?
- ForHackernews 4mo agoYou mean the wealthiest country in the world with a thriving, educated, well-integrated Muslim population that earns well above the national average income?
- combyn8tor 4mo agoPeople don't want to live in a mansion when it's on fire.
- flossly 4mo ago[flagged]
- jooize 4mo agoIn the efforts of all political parties to reject the nazi party, they also refused to admit anything the nazi party ever said could have any degree of reality in it.
- flossly 4mo agoFrom what I gather it's more that nazi/fascist/racist/extreme-right is used to shut people/parties up or paint them as impossible. While the left/socialist/labour has alienated their base by not listening to the problem of the commoners who have to live among the immigrants (as they usually settle in the poorer parts of big cities, that where labour strongholds).
- Procrastes 4mo ago> Democrats US who always love to say “Follow the Nordic Model” past performance is not indicative of future results I'm not about to run out and suggest Finnish lunches or buy a tin of Surströmming for breakfast, but it might be nice to have a balanced budget.
- ribs 4mo agoHold on hold on hold on, tell me about Finnish lunches, as from searching they sound pretty innocuous. (Surströmming I know of, no questions there)
- Procrastes 3mo agoSorry, I conflated Finnish lunches and Norwegian matpakke in my head. Nothing wrong with Finnish lunch.
- noncoml 4mo ago> Safe to say they wouldn't agree here Maybe because they do not like to blindly follow the "leader", but instead prefer to judge for themselves? Democrats don't want "bad" immigration as much as you do. No-one wants criminals or people who are unwilling to follow the law. I am not an immigration expert, but blanket rules and blanket statements are seldom giving good results. When the right says ban immigrants they sounds as stupid as when the left says ban billionaires.
- quaverquaver 4mo agomarginal tax rates reached 94% in 1944 on income over 200k in the US. The high marginal tax regime gave rise to a period of relative equality. Nothing stupid about it - if a long right tail is a social ill (it is) then why have it?
- noncoml 4mo agoThat's different than chanting "Ban Billionaires"
- AngryData 4mo agoWho would still be a billionaire at that tax rate?
- jleyank 4mo agoDepends on what’s taxed at 94%. If it’s wages, they’ll just switch to passive 8ncome or stock/loans as they use now. If it’s all income, there’s going to be total change in the us compensation system.
- AngryData 4mo agoIf the average person was told they would have to pay 94% tax on high level income and other people could skirt it to remain billionaires there would be riots and/or changes in how income is defined, so in the end I don't think it would matter. It would have to settle one way or another in short order, although it could get pretty bloody.
- djoldman 4mo agoFollow the Nordic model has never been anything but a fantasy. All the Scandinavian countries put together have slightly more people than the NYC metro area and are extremely homogeneous in terms of ethnicity, religiosity, etc. as compared to the USA. In short, it's never been a good policy testbed for the much much larger and more diverse USA.