The talk that taxes must be radically increased in the future or that self-financing is necessary to cope with future welfare is based on lies based on lies in various state and municipal investigations. They claim that the welfare state is actually impossible to finance, which is not true.
File dr Daniel Ankarloo shows in the book Welfare myths (ETC förlag, 2010) a terribly successful myth-making in the war against welfare that uses old proven methods:
Prof. Milton Friedman formulated the axiom of change. "Only a crisis - real or imagined - can bring about real change" - only in crisis stages and states of shock can neoliberal ideas take the initiative to privatize the commons, ban unions, abolish social welfare, set prices free, and cement property rights and central bank supremacy."
Read Aftonbladet's review here.
Daniel Ankarloo says:
- Indeed, there is no evidence whatsoever of a future funding problem in it public welfare
- It is a long-lived myth, built on speculation - and sometimes outright lies - that lacks a real basis. What everyone knows is not true
- There is a surplus. The 2010 budget shows that the current and maintained standard of welfare can be maintained in the future without more working hours, without tax increases, without spending increases relative to GDP.Nevertheless, the public finances between the years 2010-2040 will improve by the equivalent of SEK 1 billion.