September 18, 2009
ACTUALLY, THAT'S 3.0:
Beyond the insults: Swedish Model 2.0 (Olle Wästberg, 9/16/09, The Local)
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 18, 2009 12:30 PM
[T]o compare with the US: Sweden has no inheritance tax, no wealth tax, and the tax on real estate is lower than in most US states.Swedish pensions are nowadays partly financed by people themselves on a kind of individual basis.
Most new schools that open in Sweden are private, as are the preschools. [...]
But Sweden has privatised some of the tasks once carried out by the Swedish postal service and, recently, the pharmacies.
The next step is a broad privatisation and increased freedom of choice (for the customers) in the health care sector.
This development of competition and privatisation has been politically controversial at the level of details, but not when it comes to the overall course. Many of the liberal reforms were initiated under the last social democratic government.
So is there a “Swedish Model 2.0”? Yes, I would say so.
