Can the right-wing conservative block's active attempt to stop the government's pension increase for the most disadvantaged in June 2022 influence the raw's election?
"And so the pure dynamite: 36 percent of voters state that there is at least a 50 percent chance that they would change their ballot if a party went to the election on improving pensions for low- and middle-income earners. This applies above all to the two parties that bring together the most LO members: the Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats," writes Åsa Linderborg in Aftonbladet about Katalys and Byggnad's survey on Swedes' pension concerns.
An idea from Red Justice is to increase the pension contribution by at least 5% of the salary and reduce the general wage contribution, which mostly goes to finance tax cuts, by the same amount. The general wage levy was introduced in 1995 at 1,5% to finance EU membership. Especially during the bourgeois 2006-2014 it was raised a lot as a way to finance tax cuts for the rich. If you halved the general wage contribution, which is now 11,62%, you could raise the pension contribution by the same amount and also get some money to increase the health insurance contribution so that more people can get safer healthcare without out-of-insurance.
If one were to remove all social contribution reductions for different groups at the same time, this would also provide significant additions to various increases in welfare and especially pensions.
When different parties lower social contributions without increasing the salary we receive in the bank account to the same extent, they are actually stealing from us as social contributions are deferred wages and not taxes.
The basic model in a future pension system should be that everyone with citizenship or a permanent residence permit has the right to a guaranteed pension on which it is possible to live as a middle income earner. Then everything you earn during your working life becomes a bigger or smaller plus depending on how much you worked. Today, such a basic level could be 20 before tax per month. This level should then be index-regulated to both wage and price developments.
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On health care, crime and the countryside, I have repeatedly sent proposals to the central party. However, no reaction or feedback whatsoever. Sad.