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Sweden is up there with the other Scandinavian countries as well. Sweden will even give the parental leave RETROACTIVELY to immigrants that are moving to Swede
by draugadrotten 14y ago
Sweden is up there with the other Scandinavian countries as well.
Sweden will even give the parental leave RETROACTIVELY to immigrants that are moving to Sweden after the child is born but is not yet 7 years old. So if you move to Sweden with 3-4 kids, the mother (or father) can stay at home several years - with pay. An immigrant to Sweden with 3 children will receive 20.000 SEK per month [~3000 USD] for staying at home, taking care of her kids.
[Source: http://fmalm.blogspot.se/2012/09/vandringshistoria-pa-natet-och-fakta-i.html http://fmalm.blogspot.se/2012/09/vandringshistoria-pa-natet-...]
Now do you see why Sweden has the world's highest taxes?
- notimetorelax 14y agoI guess I'd be OK to pay taxes if they were used for such purposes.
- subsystem 14y agoThe link you provided has little to do with parental leave, instead it states that you have to attend school or similar activities full time. Also the 7 year limit isn't valid anymore, it's 80% of the time before the child is 4 years old and the rest before the child is 12 years.
- jharsman 14y agoSweden does have very high taxes, but they are not the highest in the world. Belgium and Denmark have higher rates (measured as percentage of GDP). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...
- orjan 14y ago"The calculation is based on a fictitous family which has been constructed solely for the point of maximizing the subsidies per family member. It includes subsidies that can't be combined, that are partly miscalculated and, in some cases, just improbable."