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by zx8080 1208 days ago
What do they spend taxpayers money for instead?
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Defence, police, tax incentives for driving and reduced tax on fossile fuels.

Many other things of course. But these are some of the areas where the difference is largest compared to the opposition.

> ...tax incentives for driving

That's such a weird misrepresentation. I would say they are for pausing the increases to already extreme taxes on gasoline, so people outside of cities can afford to drive to work.

(I have never owned a car and still sympathise)

And maintaining 0% property tax, interest deductions and lowered taxes on income from work.

Policies that are extremely popular with the average Swede who has a stable income, mortgage etc. But the left and right have both been shafting low income earners for quite a while now.