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5 Myths About Sweden as Obama Visits [The Clown Will IGNORE #2]
ABC ^ | 9/4/13 | Karl Ritter

Posted on 09/04/2013 3:32:04 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

... MYTH 2: SWEDES ARE SOCIALISTS AND PAY THE WORLD'S HIGHEST TAXES

Sweden no longer looks like the bloated nanny state it was in the 1970s and '80s. After a crippling banking crisis 20 years ago, Sweden took steps to make its economy more competitive, deregulating energy, communication, transport and other sectors and lowering taxes.

Since taking office in 2006, Reinfeldt's center-right government has accelerated the move away from socialism, selling off state-owned businesses including the maker of Absolut vodka, trimming welfare benefits and income taxes and abolishing the tax on wealth.

Sweden still has a relatively generous welfare system and taxes still account for about half of the economy, but neighboring Denmark's tax rates are even higher.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitalism; jobs; taxes
Sweden is still over-taxed, but it HAS moved in the right direction.

Look for the Clown to ignore that fact.....

The Clown's visit to Sweden was hastily arranged when it became apparent that the PLANNED summit with Putin would show the world the difference between a leader and a stumbler. Instead, Team BO opted for cowardice and canceled the meeting.

1 posted on 09/04/2013 3:32:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

I think a lot of northern Europeans are asking themselves whether or not they want to “fundamentally transform” their countries demographically, and deciding “No”. They’ll still be liberal, but they won’t watch their countries be submerged by dark pagan hordes.


2 posted on 09/04/2013 3:44:54 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SoFloFreeper

How, exactly, was the Prime Minister’s great-great grandfather an “African American?” Did he ever live in America? This pc absurdity rears it’s ugly head every time someone black NOT from America is discussed. (African-Swedish?) It annoys me to no end.


3 posted on 09/04/2013 4:11:15 AM PDT by Rutabega (If you don't want me in your personal affairs, don't stick your hand out for my help.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

He is going to discuss the myth of global warming. I doubt he brings up economics at all. He does not even know what economy means.


4 posted on 09/04/2013 4:17:29 AM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: napscoordinator

I wonder if he will inquire if Swiss (sic.) is the official language or do they speak something else?

I guarantee if he was asked to point to Sweden on a map, he could not find it, perhaps not even find Europe without a prompt.


5 posted on 09/04/2013 4:38:20 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Rutabega
From Wikipedia, make of that what you will:

During the 2006 election, it was brought to attention that Reinfeldt's paternal great-grandfather, John Reinfeldt, was the illegitimate son of Emma Dorotea Reinfeld, a maid from Eckau in present-day Latvia, and John Hood, an African American circus director from New York.

So if this is the case, the article is indeed correct.

6 posted on 09/04/2013 4:49:52 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
5 Myths About Sweden as Obama Visits [The Clown Will IGNORE #2]

I doubt it. When he has to, he'll find a place to go.
7 posted on 09/04/2013 4:55:01 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: SoFloFreeper
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"Sweden is still over-taxed, but it HAS moved in the right direction"-SloFloFreeper

Not for long.


8 posted on 09/04/2013 5:55:27 AM PDT by wtd
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He does not even know what economy means.

True, but as long as he and the family can traipse around the world in style he's happy.

9 posted on 09/04/2013 6:18:48 AM PDT by ken in texas (Obama schedule- Nice weather: golf, else play spades with Reggie)
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To: Paradox

Okay, but you know, I’d bet they’d have called him African American regardless of where he was from! (but thanks for the clarity!)


10 posted on 09/04/2013 7:15:09 AM PDT by Rutabega (If you don't want me in your personal affairs, don't stick your hand out for my help.)
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To: Paradox
...John Hood, an African American circus director...

It doesn't say that John Hood was black. He could have been the white director of a circus owned by some African Americans.

11 posted on 09/04/2013 8:45:54 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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It doesn't say that John Hood was black. He could have been the white director of a circus owned by some African Americans.

LOL! Nice....

12 posted on 09/04/2013 10:56:11 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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