Some on the right thought that the red-green government (2014-2018) should have kept the previous government's reduced pub VAT. These right-wingers believe that you can certainly build an economy on low-wage jobs like those in fast food restaurants without high work heights.
I do not agree. The basis of the economy creates the added value that the rest of society must live on. When the base was industrial jobs, the working height of these jobs was relatively high, which is why they could get a good salary. This had positive economic consequences for the entire rest of society.
It is not measures such as the Alliance Government's (2006-2014) extremely expensive and ineffective reduction in restaurant tax that create good jobs for the employee and society. We must invest in the possibility of further education throughout life in case of unemployment. In this way, the workforce can adapt to the constantly changing needs of the market.
Fewer staff more men's jobs
At the same time, fewer personnel are doing the jobs of more men through the long-increasing robotization and automation. Therefore, we need to consider raising VAT, capital gains taxes and corporate taxes and closing all kinds of tax loopholes. Especially the capitalization tax, i.e. the tax on dividends to shareholders in Sweden, is difficult for capitalists to evade. In this way, business can continue to contribute to welfare even when the workforce is constantly being reduced.
With this money, more people can be hired in the public sector. More jobs in the public sector give a lot back financially to society. A public sector that is too small reduces the power of the economy. A sufficiently large public sector with investments in technology and pharmaceutical development means that we can stand us in the global competition about work and growth.
The Alliance attacked the middle class
The alliance instead pursued an unnecessary policy for more low-wage jobs in Sweden. More and more highly educated people came to work in lower-skilled jobs. For the moralist this may be good, but it displaces those with less education from the simple jobs. Then one can wonder what the social efficiency is in putting those who paid for a university degree to work in a cafe?
http://www.etc.se/inrikes/laglonejobben-blir-allt-fler
Neoliberalism with its limitless and particularistic view of society tends to lose ground more and more.
American Republican recognizes the social danger of easy jobs
Republican Reihan Salam shows that "easy jobs" make even economies like America poorer, and mentions Sweden in the same breath.
Salam further mentions that as the number of low-wage workers increases, the need to automate decreases. This is a variation on the earlier economic law of what causes automation, namely that if the cost of labor is low, the tendency to automate goes down. This is a well-known economic law, i.a. in historical materialism.
Not only people need financial security and caring communities. Good conditions for the whole society, even low-income earners, usually benefit the economy as a whole.
Every political movement who work for a sustainable security and community have the future ahead of them.