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Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country's tax agency is still one of Sweden's most trusted institutions.

The Swedish attitude towards tax contrasts sharply with many countries where taxes can be a deeply divisive issue. We investigate what this says about Swedish society and how the popularity of the welfare state might survive growing challenges in the future.

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[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

But Massachusetts has snowy winters and icy conditions which means they need to salt the roads. This is not something that they have to contend with in check notes Sweden?

/S

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

This year in particular has been frustrating when it comes to snow. I live pretty far south, about two hours south of Stockholm, and we've had snow for like half of April. It all melted at the end of March, there were spring flowers, and then we had a shit tonne of snow again, which melted, followed by more snow. So many false starts. 😩

It's been snow free for a week now, I hope it holds.

[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh cool you live in old Denmark?

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Not that far south, haha.

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