Posted on 09/19/2010 5:57:34 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
The conservatives will most likely borrow ideas from the far-right for now.
It is the first time the left is been booted out of Sweden’s government since 1914.
Good times.
I once heard a comment that there is a pendulum swinging from left to right. We’re either 10-20 years ahead or behind the other continents. When they swing liberal, we swing conservative. Unfortunately, they’re in the right direction right now and we’re not.
The big winners are the new Swedish Democratic party which is using AP lingo "far right" and whose main issue is ending Muslim immigration to Sweden. They won 20 seats, which is the margin that denied the Conservatives a straight majority and control of Parliment.
Like similar elections in France, England, Switzerland, Holland and Austria the far left socialists and left center "conservatives" used every dirty trick in the book to prevent the anti-Jihad party from getting votes. (For instance they banned their ads from TV as "racist".)
But despite this they failed, the anti-immigrant party won 20 seats and will now have a platform to begin to tell the sickening truth about the disaster of African and Muslim immigration in Sweden (the highest rape rate in Europe, for instance).
This is a big win for the far-right. Thaat's the story.
A great site for understanding the anti-Islam movement in Europe is Gates of Vienna, which has lots of background on the election.
The tax burden on capital in Sweden is among the lowest. They corporate tax rate is 26% flat (35-40% in United States), one of the lowest in western Europe. On the other hand, taxation on labor and consumption is very high. But this government has promised to cut taxes and continue the privatizations. They are able to, because the budget deficit is around 1% this year.
For european standards, is a pretty conservative government (liberal in social issues) and the country is becoming more and more pro-business. Forget the democratic socialist myth.
The countries that passed big tax cuts for business in 2 or 3 last years (specially big and medium business) are the ones recovering better. Germany, Sweden and Austria. In 2008 Germany did cut the FEDERAL corporate tax rate from 25 to 15%, which is 20 points lower than the American federal rate and closer to the Swiss rate (8.5%). In Switzerland federal taxes are limited by the Constitution and the rich pay no more than 11.5% to Bern. Low federal taxes is the way to allow fiscal competition between cantons.
The last US president to make a significant tax cut for corporations was Reagan. But mainstream media is obsessed with the rich, and will not tell about how pro-business has northern and central Europe become.
Theoretical, but very unlikely. Swedish constitution is based on "negative parliamentarism", meaning the sitting cabinet remains after the election unless either the prime minister resigns (which dissolves the cabinet), or an explicit vote of no confidence passes the parliament with absolute majority. As it stands, this would require all opposing parties uniting in a no-confidence vote, which is highly unlikely. Since there is no other viable constellation of parties that could form a cabinet, that would force a new election and hopefully the opposition is not crazy enough to invite that kind of chaos.
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