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O segredo sueco

por A-24, em 20.04.12

O blog da Heritage faz referência a um artigo da Spectator sobre o caso da Suécia:

Since becoming Sweden’s finance minister, [Borg’s] mission has been to pare back government. His “stimulus” was a permanent tax cut. To critics, this was fiscal lunacy—the so-called “punk tax cutting” agenda. Borg, on the other hand, thought lunacy meant repeating the economics of the 1970s and expecting a different result.… Three years on, it’s pretty clear who was right. “Look at Spain, Portugal or the UK, whose governments were arguing for large temporary stimulus,” he says. “Well, we can see that very little of the stimulus went to the economy. But they are stuck with the debt.” Tax-cutting Sweden, by contrast, had the fastest growth in Europe last year, when it also celebrated the abolition of its deficit.… He continued to cut taxes and cut welfare-spending to pay for it; he even cut property taxes for the rich to lure entrepreneurs back to Sweden. The last bit was the most unpopular, but for Borg, economic recovery starts with entrepreneurs.

Menos transferências para o Sector Não-Competitivo levou ao Maior Crescimento na Europa (a partir de um ponto já de si elevado).
O que será necessário para em Portugal se imitar o exemplo que vem do frio e começar a aligeirar o peso do Estado na Economia?
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