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No, I'm not part of that movement, another smear, directly from the communist handbook. But you will get nowhere with that here.

It is of course fine to question IKEA's business practices, myself is critical of many, personally I'm all in favour of unions as a union member myself, what is not okay is for bolsjeviks to steal companies by using the force of the government and undermine the entire economic model of society in a similar fashion what happened to the kulaks.

> Your link confirms what I wrote earlier.

No, read again, it confirms that Astrid Lindgren payed 101.06% in taxes. And Astrid Lindgren was not the only one affected by this extreme taxation.

Confirmed by this report https://cms.ratio.se/app/uploads/2014/11/den_svenska_modelle...

  Marginalskatten var runt mitten av 1970-talet mycket hög (se figur 4); den högsta 
  marginalskatten var i mitten av 1970-talet runt 87 procent. Beaktades även 
  förmögenhetsskatten kunde marginalskatten överstiga 100 procent för kapitalinkomster 
  och för rörelsekapital kunde marginalskatten också överstiga 100 procent om hänsyn
  togs till både inkomstskatt och egenavgifter (Grosskopf & Rabe, 1991). 
  Detta uppmärksammades av Astrid Lindgren och föranledde henne att skriva en saga om 
  Pomperipossa (Pomperipossa i Monismanien, 1976) som levde i ett
  fantasiland (Monismanien), framställt som en idyll i mångt och mycket men
  där Pomperipossa tvingades att betala mer i skatt än vad hon tjänade (102 procent).
  Astrid Lindgren beskrev på ett målande sätt Sverige och sin egen situation vilket
  ledde till ett skatteuppror i Sverige och att den 100 procentliga marginalskatten
  ganska snart justerades nedåt (Grosskopf & Rabe, 1991) även om marginalskatten 
  på rörelsekapital fortfarande kunde uppgå till 90 procent.

Never trust left wing radicals on history or on anything actually. Lies are part of their ideology in order to turn society upside down.

And why are you denying it? This is what your movement wanted and still wants, that we all should be tax slaves under an anonymous bureaucracy.

In every answer you keep bringing in irrelevant arguments, but that is typical of left wing radicals, they need to create a myth that they are fighting the good fight against all these fascists, so that they can impose a tyranny on all of us.

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1973 September: Social democrats wins election 1974 : LAS Lag om anställningsskydd (Employment Protection Act) Abandoning the spirit of Saltsjöbadsavtalet from 1938 1974 : General parental insurance 1975 August : LO union present the idea of Löntagarfonder (Employee funds) 20% of company profits should forcibly be transformed to equity issuance and handed to the union No limit on number of shares, i.e eventual union takeover 1975 November : Dictator of Spain Francisco Franco dies 1975 New Years: Union boss Hans Ericson vacations in Spanish Canary Islands 1976 March : Astrid Lindgren writes here famous story about high taxes in "Pomperipossa i Monismanien" 1976 April : Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden 1976 May : Reduction of taxes as a response to Astrid Lindgren critique about high taxes 1976 Summer : LO union decides on supporting Löntagarfonder 1976 Autumn : Right wing opposition attacks the Löntagarfonder, calling it "Öststatssocialism" (East State Socialism) 1976 September: Social democrats loses election to the Right wing opposition First pure right wing government since 1936 Coup d'état as a famous social democrat called it 1978 : Pamphlet "Fritt näringsliv eller fondsocialism", opposition from the Swedish employers' organization SAF 1979 September: Right wing wins election 1982 Februari : Revised version legislation for LAS (note this is by the right wing government) 1982 September: Social democrats wins election 1982 October : Big Bang, massive devaluation of 16% for the Swedish Krona (SEK) 1983 October : Massive demonstrations against Löntagarfonder 1983 December : Revised and water downed version, because of the massive protests, of Löntagarfonder implemented 5 different funds each fund could not own more than 8% of a company (less than 50%) 1985 September: Social democrats wins election 1985 December : Swedish Centralbank (Riksbanken) decided together with the social democratic finance minister to approve de facto unlimited loans for commercial bank customers 1986 Februari : Prime minister Olof Palme murdered 1988 September: Social democrats wins election (probably would have lost if Palme hadn't been murdred) 1989 November : Berlin wall falls 1990 August : Iraq invades Kuwait, increased interest rates follows 1990 October : Investment company Nyckeln cannot pay its debt speculation on real-estate with massive loans Begins the Banking, Housing and Financial crisis in Sweden Banks and real-estate companies goes bankrupt 1991 September: Right wing wins election First decision of new government is to scrap Löntagarfonder 1992 Autumn : Floating exchange rate for the Swedish Krona (SEK) after a failed attempt to defend a fixed exchange rate The era of politicians devaluing the currency is over 1994 September: Social democrats wins 1996 : Finanspolitiska ramverket (Fiscal policy framework) no more overspending by politicians, end of Keynesian politics 1998 September: Social democrats wins 1999 Januari : Independent Central bank by law No more money printing by politicians to bribe the electorate