Facts and figures showing the success of social policies of Olof Palme. The data are taken from the book of Peter Antman (3) and the European Commission's website.
- In 1986 40% of the population worked in the public sector (in 1960 was only 14%). Of these only 4.8% were what today would bureaucrats call at this point does not differ much from other countries, where there is dramatic growth in the number of public workers in social services (health, education, family care ...) that goes up to 25% . This is directly related to the very low rate of unemployment. In 1987 was only 2.5% below that of countries who had rushed to implement neoliberal policies, in the UK, after 8 years of neo-liberalism of Margaret Thatcher had an unemployment rate of 11%. This year we find the same amount of unemployment in the country of reference of the neoliberals, Pinochet's Chile, where neoliberal (Chicago Boys) that operate with impunity for years.
- The percentage of public spending increases each year , and are maintained by a high tax burden, most of the Western world. The tax burden rose from 35% in 1965 to 50% in 1986 (in 1989 it reached 56%). Spain for its part fell from 15% in 1965 (the tax burden the lowest in Europe) to 30 % in 1986 (less than one point of the lowest tax burden in Europe). The very low tax burden in Spain deprives the state of sufficient funds to carry out an effective policy for employment creation. And this is what the macro economic data show again and again, the private sector does not create enough jobs to compensate, neoliberalism must resort to forms of growth based on credit expansion and the creation of speculative bubbles (such as which we have lived in Spain and the world). Reduce unemployment with speculative growth is only possible under neoliberalism, but is harmful to the majority of the population, and the crisis in which it flows, is worse than the temporary benefits it brings.
- Revenue at the Swedish Olof Palme were high and more equal world . Class differences had fallen more than any other Western country. So not only GDP per capita of Sweden was among the highest in the world, but that wealth actually came to most people, not like in other countries that have a higher per capita GDP (as in the U.S.) has concentrated wealth, accumulated by the upper class, while there are pockets of poverty much more important and the large middle class was (and is) always on edge.
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- In 1986 40% of the population worked in the public sector (in 1960 was only 14%). Of these only 4.8% were what today would bureaucrats call at this point does not differ much from other countries, where there is dramatic growth in the number of public workers in social services (health, education, family care ...) that goes up to 25% . This is directly related to the very low rate of unemployment. In 1987 was only 2.5% below that of countries who had rushed to implement neoliberal policies, in the UK, after 8 years of neo-liberalism of Margaret Thatcher had an unemployment rate of 11%. This year we find the same amount of unemployment in the country of reference of the neoliberals, Pinochet's Chile, where neoliberal (Chicago Boys) that operate with impunity for years.
- The percentage of public spending increases each year , and are maintained by a high tax burden, most of the Western world. The tax burden rose from 35% in 1965 to 50% in 1986 (in 1989 it reached 56%). Spain for its part fell from 15% in 1965 (the tax burden the lowest in Europe) to 30 % in 1986 (less than one point of the lowest tax burden in Europe). The very low tax burden in Spain deprives the state of sufficient funds to carry out an effective policy for employment creation. And this is what the macro economic data show again and again, the private sector does not create enough jobs to compensate, neoliberalism must resort to forms of growth based on credit expansion and the creation of speculative bubbles (such as which we have lived in Spain and the world). Reduce unemployment with speculative growth is only possible under neoliberalism, but is harmful to the majority of the population, and the crisis in which it flows, is worse than the temporary benefits it brings.
- Revenue at the Swedish Olof Palme were high and more equal world . Class differences had fallen more than any other Western country. So not only GDP per capita of Sweden was among the highest in the world, but that wealth actually came to most people, not like in other countries that have a higher per capita GDP (as in the U.S.) has concentrated wealth, accumulated by the upper class, while there are pockets of poverty much more important and the large middle class was (and is) always on edge.
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