The Ilmar Reepalu do is about safeguarding the legitimacy of the whole idea of ​​… – Aftonbladet

The Swedish welfare capitalists will celebrate the holidays with slightly higher blood pressure. They can thank Reepalu for.

The old municipal politician’s the day the government Inquiry and look closely at how the tax money we pay to wealth actually goes to welfare.

And in day wrote Reepalu a debate article in Dagens Nyheter in which he recalled that it enough to operate that way.

he would not have done.

more people want to pay more

– Reepalu investigation must be closed! thunders Care Enterprises nutrient political director Hakan Tenelius in an ill-tempered little press release.

From the other lobbies hummas it.

Why?

What kind of welfare we are to have the Sweden is about how much you and I pay in taxes. And many of us pay too little.

If welfare in Sweden to keep the current level while the public finances should be balanced, it must be so-called tax ratio – taxes as a total share of GDP – to increase three percentage points. This, according to NIER.

Then we would end up at 45.7 percent of GDP, roughly equivalent to what it looked like before the earned income tax credit and Anders Borg.

If we look around, we can not so difficult to understand why.

Today’s tax payments are not enough if we want to solve the lack of space care, understaffing in the care of the elderly, large groups of children, social services’ lack of resources and so on. At the same time, studies show that Swedish people are prepared to pay more in taxes. But then the condition that the money actually goes to health care and school.

At the same time – and this is Reepalu investigation gets interesting – is the welfare of how tax crowns are used.

Sweden is unique because we totally unregulated letting private companies take profits from a tax-financed activities. It affects the final quality of the users and the staff’s working environment, we know that.

Water and bread

We also know that when schools and health centers become commodities in a market has tremendous amount – our tax money – could go away in tax havens in the mysterious treasure up.

And too many of us have seen what can happen. Our old have been abused in the name of profit, our cousins ​​education companies have gone bankrupt, our sisters childbirth clinker have been closed down and our children have received water and bread for lunch at preschool.

And no matter how we vote in municipal elections so it is not our elected officials that govern and develop the prosperity we pay.

Many people are there who want to fix this. And that’s how it should go to the Ilmar Reepalu now investigating, Stefan Löfvens mission. That it keeps on giving welfare lobbyists heart attack may well understand.

But the most likely angry no ordinary voters. To be tax leakage is an edge position.

It Reepalu do is about safeguarding the legitimacy of the whole concept of tax-funded welfare services.

And it’s about the desire to have a working system that is able to take care of the dearest thing we have: our parents, our children and our loved when they are sick and weak.

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