I was invited to be a guest and visitor with two women visiting the US from Sweden with Rotary Club International.

They were very interested in our low taxes, I was very interested in their social benefits of their higher taxes.

Our ages are 28, 29, and 32. As we compared salaries and take home pay. They were not very different. When I shared this information with fellow Americans, they’re first response was, “yah but look what they give up”.

Some how I was the only one seeing how much they were gaining. I tried to remind those I was sitting with that, while they have high taxes, so do we, ours just go towards other things. I personally happen to like the allocation of Sweden’s better.

Whenever I end up in the conversations with my inlaws who happen to have voted for our current president, but now complain about high taxes, they still don’t seem to put two and two together.

No where is perfect, but it is good to think about the concept that maybe the taxes won’t go down, but maybe they could be used other ways.