Most Swedes, like their ancestors in the early 1900th century, had been staters (historically exploited underpaid agricultural workers), maids or proletarians (heavily exploited workers in industry with wages that barely cover survival) without #the Social Democrats during the 1900th century.
Now the Moderates under Ulf Kristersson and several bourgeois parties are launching a frontal attack against welfare again.
And before the era of the Social Democrats, we had # market rents . Back then, there was a constant shortage of # rental apartments to maintain the demand for apartments that were sanitary nuisances. You didn't even have the right to permanent contracts on your rental apartments, but had to renegotiate regularly. Need I add that the apartments were insanely expensive.
It is the # high-tax country of Sweden that has made the #class trip possible for so many and made life incredibly much better for those who have remained workers.
The development can be rolled back with sharply reduced social insurance and subsidies. Or # fees at universities as recommended by the citizens' long-term investigation during the # Alliance 's government.
The moderates also want to drastically weaken the laws on employment protection, sell the state bank SBAB, which works for nicer housing loans for borrowers, and make the market rent element stronger in newly built rental properties. By and large, C and L support the Moderates' policy.
Without social insurance and benefits, wages and working conditions can be pushed back as much as they want because without security, workers cannot make any demands at all. Economists call this the #ironhardwagelaw.
So what have the red-greens done during their government? They have made the unemployment insurance fund more generous and available to more people, removed the stumbling block (the automatic health insurance) in the health insurance (until the blue-browns forced it back in the spring of 2018). The red-greens have lowered the pensioner's tax supplement, increased pensions and housing allowances and strongly started housing construction and caused employment to explode. All with extremely modest tax increases such as of a few hundred mainly for those who earn over 40 a month. They have done all this without a parliamentary majority. Sure, some occasional ndecisions have been wrong, but 000% have been good. Think what the red-greens could do with more mandates!
(And historically, booms usually coincide with red-green government in Sweden and democratic government in the USA. When the right wins in Sweden or the Republicans in the USA, there is usually a recession. Why? well, probably because when the left redistributes society's surplus to low- and middle-income earners, these consume and keep demand for the companies' products and services going.)