Think one step further, please

It's interesting. I can't think of many other countries where the promise of lower taxes will spur on petitions and protests across an entire nation. It's currently happening in Sweden. Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said in his traditional summer speach that he wants to lower taxes in Sweden even further. He probably thought this would be a good move a year before elections. He was wrong. It has given more fire to the opposition.

One of the many reasons the opposition is giving as to why our taxes (it is the income tax we're talking about) is the decreasing quality of education. There is a huge lack of qualified teachers, this is partly due to the very low teaching salaries and the low status level that teachers have in the Swedish society. Which to me is incomprehensible. Surely teachers should be one of the highest valued professions in our society?

But the status of the teaching profession was not what this was meant to be about. It is about how proud I am to be living in a country where people loudly disagree with the government lowering taxes! When it comes to taxes people have to understand what it is we are paying for. Some people in Sweden, and many many many more outside of these borders, think taxes is a way for a government to extract money from its people for no good reason what so ever. WRONG. How people can think this is beyond me, but people do. But all you have to do is look around you, especially in Sweden! Free university. Brilliant public transportation. Great infrastructure. Free childcare. Lunch for children while in school. Cumpolsory pensions saving scheeme. Good maternity AND paternity leave. The list can go on. I'm not saying we're living in a perfect system. But people sometimes need to be reminded of the things we receive due to us paying our taxes.

Lets keep on fighting the government and their will to destroy our society. Our society is meant to be inclusive, for everyone. Including those who might not be able to afford private healthcare, and private education.