Saturday politics September 20, 2025

Today, it’s time for a domestic political post, and there are ten million strong opinions about such matters in Sweden 😀

My big hobbyhorse is that the tax collection is a social contract and that none of our 8 parties really respect it or see it as such.

However, the Tidö team has a little more respect than the parties to the left of center because the whole business idea of that gang is based on bribing citizens for more votes.

We have –

-almost the world’s highest taxes.

-among the world’s highest welfare.

So, if someone tells you that you should pay more taxes, they themselves have no budget discipline – why should you pay for it out of your own pocket?

If you don’t have the world’s best welfare when we have the world’s highest taxes, you are paying for someone else’s poor budget discipline, or for something else your money shouldn’t go to – why should you pay for it if it’s not the basic idea of the social contract?

“But SJ,” someone immediately shouts, and yes, it’s a good question how Ukraine’s trains can work better than SJ in the country with the world’s highest taxes and eternal peace.

If you don’t live in total security in the world’s most gender-equal country that has come a long way in letting the state take care of the monopoly on violence, it’s due to a lack of respect for the security that previous generations have built up.

Or that criminals simply see it as low-hanging fruit because the consequences are non-existent – I think it was 6% of thefts that are solved now, and if you avoid the prison sentence by simply not showing up at the gates on the day of incarceration, no one has time to chase you.

But if you live in the country of Sweden, you don’t need to commit crimes to survive – you have food, shelter, healthcare, transportation, and education guaranteed for you. If you commit crimes, it’s because you want to, and can, commit crimes.

The whole discussion about the lack of youth centers, opportunities, money is dishonest.

When I lived in Angola – do you think everyone there was criminals, or was the country largely law-abiding hard-working people trying to support their families – they have none of the welfare we have, and especially no youth centers.

This, in a rough way, summarizes where we should be in Sweden in terms of what we should get for the money we pay in taxes and the country our parents have created and handed over to us.

The next point is that our elected officials should pursue policies for the majority society (THE TAXPAYING CLASS REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY) because they are the ones who pay for the whole country.

Then we should have a commitment to those in need in the country and a little outside, but the fat cats at Forum CIV are absolutely not in need, for example, they have just found a way to have a better standard of living than those who pay their salaries, which is upside down.

Forum CIV is one of the extremely many constellations created to steal your money.

Politicians themselves are starting to detach from the ground in terms of salaries and benefits, not to mention the EU, which has become a money-sucking monster where one goes to earn big money from all the different allowances one can get if they have a lack of morals, which apparently almost all EU parliamentarians have from right to left.

I laughed so hard when some of our EU parliamentarians after the election took a picture from the train station and said, “now we’re going to Brussels,” only to then take a taxi to Bromma and fly down instead.

Almost on par with the influencer who wrote about flight shame after the assignments she got when she was on the plane to Mallorca, and on other social media posted about her vacation instead.

Most authorities, state and municipal operations, and actually private companies have also fallen victim to being hijacked by administration, HR, and finance that have grown exponentially. When I started working as a consultant in the UK, it was the engineers who were the ones providing and we were treated like gods. All managers were old engineers, and then HR, Admin, and finance were just a support function that had to put up with us.

Now in 2025, all organizations are administration-heavy, and often they tell you how to do your job without understanding what you actually do – you are the provider and they are the consumers in the organizations.

The only company I’ve worked at in the last 10 years that functioned well was actually Royal Haskoning, still privately owned, and it was full-on cowboy there.

Here, one could make a huge cut in an unnecessary expense that is also counterproductive wherever they reign 😀

The overall point I want to make is that if you are a net contributor to the country – privately employed in a company or in any other way bringing in money to the country, you should have the best standard of living.

Those who live on your tax money should never have a better standard of living than you; if they do, someone has managed to confuse the cards to benefit themselves from what you have created.

And those who otherwise live perhaps entirely on the money you pay in taxes should be grateful for your help, sincerely grateful.

Now, that’s not the case at all, almost the opposite – a well-functioning working family with a house, car, dog, and children in sports who are doing well in school is almost a red flag for everyone living off their tax payments when it should be exactly the opposite.

And yes – I used that as an example, but it applies to all providers in whatever constellation they have chosen to live in, and whatever gender identity they have chosen to have.

Below is a digression, admittedly.

I think everyone who wants should gladly support whoever they want – for example, I have had a significant social commitment in Angola since 2006 that has cost way too much now when you start thinking about saving for retirement and realize how much you could have had if you hadn’t spent the money there, which is a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things, of course, since the country has a large proportion of poor citizens hunting for food.

If we get to keep more – can’t those who want then donate from their salary through monthly donations to causes they want to support?

Especially those who wag their fingers at the rest of us – they can donate 50% of their salaries, I have the list of names.

It seems like a lot of people think aid is good, so the money will come in anyway?

I have been doing it for years, for example, but instead of my hard-earned money going to high salaries, it goes directly to those in need.

Some countries have solved it that way.

Many who empty the treasury because they can, Jens Nylander, the Waste Ombudsman, and other political parties constantly highlight the irregularities.

But since crime pays, there are rarely any consequences.

I believe that Europe is heading towards worse times and that everything will deteriorate due to Russian and Chinese destabilization that they have been preparing for already for 10-15 years.

Perhaps it’s necessary to think a bit before we completely crash, or maybe that’s what’s needed to reset the system?

Some countries have introduced a “flat tax” and then are very restrictive with deductions, so in the end, high-income earners probably pay their share anyway because they can’t tax plan away everything like low-income earners can’t. When we had the highest taxes before the turn of the millennium, the “zero taxpayers” were kings in the buddy club.

Something that the M party has refused to implement is full tax exemption up to a certain amount – 250,000 SEK, for example.

It would do infinitely much for low-income earners, and surprisingly many countries have it.

Then, of course, we should have a referendum on a binding list of what the tax revenue can be used for, and if there is a surplus, it is returned to those who paid the tax.

This binding list is constitutionally protected and can only be changed over two electoral terms.

With a small space in appropriate places to increase where it is believed it may be needed.

Think about the constant problems we have with the school, for example – if we had fully funded municipal or state schools and then private schools where you have to pay to enroll your children, the problems would be solved quite quickly – state schools do not care about grade inflation because they do not think in terms of business, and the private schools only have paying students for academic excellence.

Or basic research, which is currently deprioritized – if it gets on the list, it will receive funding again.

The defense may have just been showered with funds, but that’s because there is war.

It has been a long time since our big companies were created, and we need to return to a business-friendly climate again.

Everything goes in cycles, and we can definitely have a positive cycle again if we just think, but for a political party in Sweden today to campaign on taxing citizens harder, then they have completely misunderstood the social contract we have with them, or they simply do not care because they do not need to.