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To summarise, the design of Nordic tax systems has over time created a ‘fiscal illusion’, whereby the public is not aware of the taxes they are paying. One can reflect on whether it is really in line with democratic principles to raise taxes in a way such that citizens are unaware of them. Interestingly, few proponents of introducing a Nordic model of high taxes in other countries stress that such a move would require hiding the true cost of taxation from the public.
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― Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism
― Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism
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It is seven months since a thirty-two-year-old Oslo man, the racist extremist Anders Behring Breivik, single-handedly doubled Norway's average annual homicide rate in one afternoon, killing a total of seventy-seven people ... From my seat in the bus nothing appears to have changed. What did I expect? That the Norwegians would have put up razor wire and enforced constant police patrols? Hardly likely in a land where the then prime minister, at the memorial service to the dead of Utoya and the Osl
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― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
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