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132 points

Wow, this is just entirely wrong. Completely and utterly wrong.

Sweden has a maximum of around 55% income tax bracket if you’re in a municipality with high income tax, but billionaires never are and as such would be taxed probably at most 50% income tax bracket.

This is of course entirely irrelevant because billionaires don’t make their money on income. Sweden has fairly low capital gains taxes - 30% on regular accounts, and a special account that taxes the whole account value by a low percentage, which shakes out in average years to even lower taxes on capital. This assumes you even keep your capital in the country, which is a big if.

There’s also no inheritance tax, no gift tax and no property tax. Sweden is actually an unusually good place to be a billionaire as far as taxation goes, and a below average place to earn a high salary as far as taxation goes.

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Thanks for the info. Good to know.

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Sweden has fairly low capital gains taxes - 30% on regular accounts,

That’s twice the American rate.

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5 points

Thanks to fairly recent changes by guess who!

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4 points

Wait, The Guess Who are in politics now?!

/Old man joke

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2 points

I think it caps at 20% doesn’t it?

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1 point

I think 28% for short term gains, but a meager 15% for long term gains.

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3 points

Afaik it’s 57%,or at least that’s what they’re taking of my bonus.

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57% is the tax on “one-time gains” - bonuses and other such things.

This means that you’re probably overpaying on it, but you might also be underpaying on your income taxes (usually ~30% even if you reach the ~50%-tax bracket). Worst case scenario, you’ve lent some money interest-free to the government that you get back on your tax returns.

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3 points

You can borrow from someone else. When someone else borrows from you, you lend it. Or lent as the past tense

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1 point

My only question is: Is there a limit to one person’s power?

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-58 points

Dude… its a meme…

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45 points

Correct, but there are those that would take this as a source of truth and run with it. It’s not the smart thing to do, but we already see people doing this sort of behavior on other social media.

We shouldn’t enable the problem, even if it’s an innocent mistake

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You are correct one should never use a tactic that clearly worked for the opponent

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The point of the meme is to highlight that rich people should be taxed more

You can’t include bracket taxing, asset taxing etc in a commit meme format.

If people get their facts off memes, they indeed have a problem but you can’t accommodate for all who arent critical of their knowledge sources

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It’s was just a prank bro calm down

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14 points

Just because it’s wrong, doesn’t make it a joke.

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13 points

Memes is how we got Trumpers.

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