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paleotn

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17. Exactly!!!! All of the Nordics are new business generating powerhouses.

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:51 PM

Jul 5

One driver is the social safety net for those who have an idea and want to make a go of it. That greatly reduces the risk if your idea goes sideways. People are incentivized to take risks who ordinarily wouldn't or couldn't in the US system. Thus, higher new business generation.

But it's not without problems. Sweden's taxes on capital gains are a bit more regressive than ours in some cases. But generally their rich pay their fair share in total taxation. Ironically, Sweden's billionaires per capita is 1.5 times larger than the US.

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LEARN the DIFFERENCE! [View all] orangecrush Jul 5 OP

Communism is actually LisaL Jul 5 #1

I love the Sweden model... chouchou Jul 5 #2

Like most functional liberal democracies. pat_k Jul 5 #5

Years ago... GiqueCee Jul 5 #7

Education is a bane to Republicans dave99 Jul 5 #12

I remember... GiqueCee Jul 6 #20

Then they should label themselves appropriately per their audience's understanding. RandomNumbers Jul 6 #21

That is known as Social Democracy Fiendish Thingy Jul 5 #6

Me too Joinfortmill Jul 5 #9

Exactly!!!! All of the Nordics are new business generating powerhouses. paleotn Jul 5 #17

Political liberalism is nobody should be poor. mr715 Jul 5 #3

I prefer Social Democrat pwb Jul 5 #4

"Learn the difference??2?" Grokenstein Jul 5 #8

Capitalism: TBF Jul 5 #10

Google Happiest Countries in the World. OGBuzz Jul 5 #11

NO. They're "social democracies" and the ordering of the words makes a difference. harumph Jul 5 #18

Correct. My bad. But I don't believe socialism is a scary word. OGBuzz Jul 6 #19

Republicans want people to be poor IronLionZion Jul 5 #13

In our union elections we always had company doc03 Jul 5 #14

Late-Stage Capitalism: if you're born rich you can stay that way FakeNoose Jul 5 #15

The rich scare-monger the voters because they don't want to pay higher taxes. Justice matters. Jul 5 #16