Thank you Astrid Lindgren for creating Pippi

Right now we are having a right coalition government in Sweden. I have been having my eyes on them since they started in 2005. Since the left-wing with Göran Persson has run the country for I think 12 years it is with interest and curiosity I follow them to see if they can do something new for this country. I think we have a pretty nice solution here with a mixed economy that we can be pretty proud of. Everyone can use the social security even if they don´t paid a lot of money on insurances. We have our problems like all others but I think we have a pretty human view of how one should treat each other both rich and poor. The question is if we can keep this standard in the future. There has been lot of cutbacks on the unemployed and the well-off have gotten their VAT lowered on houses and fortunes. We have a lot of taxes in Sweden so maybe we can get rid of some but the question is how we do this to share equally. What does it mean to do it equally? Some people like Kamprad who started and owns IKEA has put his whole life into serving his company, other people like to do nothing. Astrid Lindgren, the author of the Pippi Long Stocking books wrote a funny article many years ago and called some of the VAT Pomperipossa-taxes. She had gotten an amount of tax that was more than 100% of what she earned. I would love to have read a tale about that. 


Thank you Astrid Lindgren for all those great books you wrote and also giving small girls a strong and funny role model!

Photo from: http://www.rabensjogren.se

Anyway the person who impress me the most today is the postman who is biking and biking all year long in rain and in snow. That is impressing. Perhaps he is more happy than the men in black suits!


All the best
Anna