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Originally Posted by connyosis
Yes, we have high taxes here, on the other hand that means free university education, free healthcare and such things americans (For instance) pay a lot for. My girlfriend is from the US, and I do believe that if you summed up what americans pay for taxes, insurance, healthcare and so on compared to our swedish taxes, we don't pay that much more actually. Not that I think Sweden is perfect in any way, but we're doing pretty well...
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I used to work on a few water treatment projects in Europe with a fellow from Sweden. I believe he was fairly wealthy or at least he lived a great lifestyle.
On each of his trips to the states he would load up on computers, appliances, clothes, etc.. to take back with him. He said they cost 2 or 3 times more in Gotenburg. He even imported a Mercedes. They escaped paying Swedish duty because they claimed the items were for business use. I'm not knocking the Swedish system because I don't know much about it.
He wound up marrying an opera singer from New York. When their first child was born he got to take off more than a year at something like 95% of his salary. Something about encouraging people to have more children to pay for the social programs. I was so jealous, LOL.