Tidölaget's strategy is to, after a short time, lower the unemployment fund by 5% every 100 days until it reaches a bottom of SEK 8030 before tax per month. This contrasts with the needs of the long-term unemployed. These are often functionally varied often functionally varied or long-term ill and cannot cope with the low-wage jobs the government advocates to solve...
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Visitation zones instead of competitiveness
In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
Good pensions require progressive taxes and adequate government deficits
It is always today's production capacity that pays for today's pensions via taxes. Vote for good pensions and work for an economically, ecologically and socially sustainable future. Pensions require sustainable production A system with sufficient progressive taxes and government deficits/that the government creates money instead of the banks doing it via lending (read about deficits here) can...
Resistance to deficits and investments leads to recession in Sweden
Resistance to deficits and investments leads to a recession in Sweden. According to a debate article by Daniel Suhonen and Enna Gerin, Sweden is backing away from Kataly's handfalls into the future. The Tidö government suffers from a morbid inability to grasp Sweden's problems. The country will probably enter a recession. Growth will be the lowest in the EU. Swedish households do not have…
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
Can we afford society?
How can we afford society? Government money that is not used for production to satisfy societal and human needs in a socio-ecologically sustainable manner is wasted. The government must run a deficit to make the economy expand. That's how we get along with society. If the state, which can print money, does not do this sufficiently, it leads…
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Preventive and repressive measures are not enough against gang crime and crime
Against gang crime, criminality and social unrest, school and social services are important preventive and rehabilitative efforts, as well as police and prison significant repressive efforts are important parts. But even more important is to offer good jobs to everyone with long-term employment and good wages. Work is historically one of Sweden's most effective integration and order-creating factors. Unemployment also seems to lead…
The public sector is needed for new technology
As you may remember from high school textbooks, the race between the developed nations during the Cold War led to technological achievements. These inventions benefited society and business. Business could generate large profits. The Italian-American economics professor Mariana Mazzucato has discussed this phenomenon in the book "The Entrepreneurial State". Much other research also shows that product development of competitive new…