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When Spyker bought the troubled car company, Saab the Swedish government didn’t interfere, when Saab went bankrupt they didn’t interfere and when the Chinese have bought it they didn’t interfere.
This is just one of the ways in which Sweden just isn’t as socialist or left-wing or even modern day liberal as many seem to think.
The country has no national minimum wage, no inheritance tax, capital and certainly corporate taxes are lower than in the US, in fact, the tax system as a whole is less progressive than that of the US or UK. It just isn’t what many seem to think it is.
All in they pay 50% more in taxes.
We pay 15% fed and 15% state and local of our GDP.
according to this link they pay 44%.
https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-norway.pdf