Thank goodness I'm not a pax guy!
#31
This 'bailout' is very important to our profession (and the entire country) and therefore I'm replying to this 'political' thread.
In a nutshell in the early 90’s the Swedish government was forced to buy out over 20 billion dollars worth of 'junk loans" from many Swedish banks and institutions that were collapsing left and right - the economy improved within a year or so after this 'bailout' and once the loans were eventually auctioned off the Swedish government ended up making very healthy profits on those ‘junk loans’.
(Note - the article below mentions 67 billion Swedish crowns which at the time was equivalent to some 11 billion US dollars [rate of 5.5 SEK to 1 US$ at the beginning of the crisis]...
Here's the FT article...
Policy chiefs have an eye on ‘Swedish model’
By Christopher Brown-Humes
Published: September 21 2008 22:36 | Last updated: September 21 2008 22:36
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Tax Rates Around the World
(Note: Only the underlined countries are currently ready)
Country Income Tax VAT
Corporate Individual
Argentina 35% 9-35% 21%
Australia 30% 17-47% 10%GST
Austria 25% 21%-50% 20%GST
Belgium 33.99% 25-50% 21%
Brazil 34% 15-27.5% 17-25%
Bulgaria 10% 10% 20%
Canada 19.5%(federal) 15-29%(Federal) 5%(gst)
China 25% 5-45% 17%
Cyprus 10% 20-30% 15%
Czech Rep. 21% 15% 19%
Denmark 24% 38-59% 25%
Egypt 20% 10-20% -
Estonia 22% 22% 18%
Finland 26% 8.5-31.5% 22%
France 33.33% 10%-48.09% 19.6%
Germany 30-33%(effective) 15-45% 19%
Gibraltar 33% 0-40% -
Greece 22/25% 0-40% 19%
Hong kong 17.5% 2-17% -
Hungary 16% 18% and 36% 20%
India 30-40% 10-30% 12.5%
Indonesia 10-30% 5-35% 10%
Ireland 12.5% 20-41% 21%
Israel 27% 10-47% 15.5%
Italy 31.4% 23%-43% 20%
Japan 30% 5-40% 5%(consump)
Latvia 15% 25% 18%
Lithuania 15% 15%/24% 18%
Luxemburg 22% 0-38% 15%
Malta 35% 15-35% 18%
Mexico 28% 0-28% 15%
Monaco 33.33% 0% 19.6%
Morocco 35% 0-41.5% 20%
Montenegro 9% 15% 17%
Netherlands 20-25.5% 0-52% 19%
New Zealand 33% 0-39% 12.5%gst
Norway 28% 28-51.3% 25%
Pakistan 35% 0-25% 15%
Philippines 35% 5-32% 12%
Poland 19% 19-40% 22%
Portugal 25% 0-42% 20%
Romania 16% 16% 19%
Russia 24% 13% 18%
Saudi Arabia 20% 20% --
Serbia 10% 10-20% 18%
Singapore 18% 3.5%-20% 7% (gst)
Slovakia 19% 19% 19%
Slovenia 22% 16%-41% 20%
South Africa 29% 24-43% 14%
Spain 30% 24-43% 16%
Sweden 28% 0-56% 25%
Taiwan 25% 6-40% 5%
Thailand 30% 5-37% 7%
Turkey 20% 15-35% 18%
U.K. 30% 0-40% 17.5%
Ukraine 25% 15% 20%
U.S.A. 15-35% 15-35% -
Vietnam 28% 0-40% 10%
Zambia 35% 0-35% 17.5%
#32
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Joined APC: Aug 2008
Posts: 167
Here is some REQUIRED READING for citizenship:
DoomWatch - Former Fannie Mae Executives Charged | Housing Doom
YouTube - Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?
Washington Mutual Gives $615,000 Mortgage To Immigrant Making $9 An Hour Who Can't Read Or Write English : Diggers Realm
YouTube - Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial mess
GrassFire.org - Real Impact Online.
Michelle Malkin :: Townhall.com :: Illegal Immigration and the Mortgage Mess
Recordor et Credo
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending - New York Times
American Thinker: Obama, Oprah, and the Guru: Malignant Narcissism
American Thinker Blog: 'Burning Down The House'
Soviet-style collapse in America's future?
Cliff Kincaid -- Socialism Is Coming to America
American Thinker: Clowns in the Cockpit
Credit default swaps: The Real Reason for the Global Financial Crisis...the Story No One's Talking About.
The Credit Crisis and the Real Story Behind the Collapse of AIG
How Complex Securities, Wall Street Protectionism and Myopic Regulation Caused a Near-Meltdown of the U.S. Banking System
Guess who recommended Obama to enter Harvard
#33
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I hate to be the "party pooper" here but this thread has turned into a political mess. Please don't post your views about politics on here. There are many websites out there that would welcome your political views but this is not one of them. APC realizes that everyone has an opinion towards politics and not everyone one agrees with one another's opinions. Here is a copy of the applicable "terms of service" in which everyone agreed to when they joined APC.
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#34
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,333
I do not support that, I'm just saying that the bailout worked so well they were able to recuperate all the money 'invested' into the bailout, make some profits on top of it AND lower their taxes.
#35
CMA - I totally agree with you and am not a supporter of the semi-socialized welfare system of Sweden. However I think their bailout program was brilliant and worked very well. The tax rates you just quoted were even higher when the crisis hit them - in other words since then their tax rates have been reduced! At one point the max rate was in the 80% ratio! (for very high income earners)
I do not support that, I'm just saying that the bailout worked so well they were able to recuperate all the money 'invested' into the bailout, make some profits on top of it AND lower their taxes.
I do not support that, I'm just saying that the bailout worked so well they were able to recuperate all the money 'invested' into the bailout, make some profits on top of it AND lower their taxes.
Or maybe they finally figured out Marx didn't get it right, and that sheep shorn too closely head for greener pastures.
#36
I am absolutely amazed that you peeps have taken a funny little excerpt I posted and turned it into (another) stupid APC rant.
Wait...I take that back...I am not amazed.
Carry on.
Beertini
Wait...I take that back...I am not amazed.
Carry on.
Beertini
#37
Only 4 pages to go from a silly excerpt that made me laugh my a$$ off to debating the merits of the semi-socialized Swedish tax system and Marxism. Damm, I had the over at 5 pages.
We are a sad, sad, lot.
We are a sad, sad, lot.
#38
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Posts: 56
Speaking of shorn regions...I believe Dr. Evil had the right idea...works for me, anyway.
Dr. Evil: Very well. Where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, an Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There's nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking. I suggest you try it.
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