It’s Always Someone Else Who Should Pay

/ Liza Dewlar

According to the latest Ekonomifakta/SCB statistics (Feb 2026):

  • The top 1% pay ~10–15% of Sweden’s total taxes.
  • The top 5% pay 26.1%.
  • The bottom 40% pay only 13%.

The Swedish Left wants to raise taxes on “the rich”. There’s just one problem: those in the top 5% are also the ones most likely to leave the country.

Lose even a portion of them, and you blow a multi-billion-kronor hole in the budget.

Suddenly “tax the rich” turns into “tax the rest of us”.

Because let’s be honest — nobody actually wants to pay higher taxes themselves. It’s always “someone else”.

Not even Vänsterpartiet, whose leadership recently tried to lower their own internal party tax.

This is a new post on the new dewlar.me blog.
You can find the old blog here:https://mrsdewlar.blogspot.com

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