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Sweden reining in men?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)

The New American

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It's an economic axiom that if a government wants less of something, it should tax it. Thus it's tempting to think that the "man tax" proposed by a group of far-left Swedish parliamentarians is an attempt to exterminate the male population of that Scandinavian country.

The purported objective of the "man tax," explained Reuters, is "to cover the social cost of violence against women"--which advocates of the levy insist is the collective responsibility of men, rather than the particular responsibility of individual offenders.

"It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with male violence against women and that it has a cost," asserted Gudrun Schyman, a former leader of Sweden's Left Party, in a radio interview. "We ...

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