Most people I know doesn't’t mind paying taxes to our dear sweet king since it’s quite low (something like 1$ per year per person). And we get so much value for it!
The guy is basically a retard with no feeling for tact and diplomacy. He constantly makes a fool out of himself and all the newspapers writes happily about it. So we get plenty of entertainment and scandals for just 1$ per year!
“The guy is basically a retard with no feeling for tact and diplomacy.”
Some might say you’re being a bit harsh on him, but undeniably he sometimes causes a lot of amusement.
Most people in Sweden know he once addressed a public audience in Arboga with the words “Dear inhabitants of Örebro”, but my personal favourite is a rather unknown ‘incident’ consisting in Carl XVI Gustaf confusing the universities of Lund and Uppsala in the first lines of a speech. I mean, Arboga and Örebro are located pretty close to eachother and might have been on the same day’s program, but these universities probably never were.