Sweden -- along with virtually all European countries other than Switzerland, Norway and Luxembourg -- have much poorer middle classes than most US states.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/if-sweden-left-the-eu-and-joi...
https://mises.org/wire/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state...
Switzerland, Iceland, Luxmbourg, Belgium, Ireland, France, UK, Spain, Austria, Italy, Malta, Norway.
If you go by mean wealth on the other hand, only Switzerland is higher than the US. But that is not a measure of middle class wealth.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
Americans with savings rates that are comparable to Europeans end up accumulating tremendous wealth over their careers, even in the middle class. This is offset by the majority that spend every penny. That Americans don’t save their prodigious income is an unfortunate artifact of having multiple generations of nearly unbroken prosperity.
Sweden typically ranks much higher on class mobility measures than the USA.
Accumulating wealth is the only way poor people can stop being poor. Of course it's related to class mobility.
A society that emphasises wealth accumulation above all else will have the privileged accumulate so much wealth it'll be nearly impossible for the poor to catch up, no matter how talented or hardworking.
One way of measuring class mobility is looking at your liklihood of finishing your life in a higher 'class' (variously definied) than you started it, or than your parents had. With that kind of measure, Sweden does extremely well. Certainly much better than countries like the USA, which arguably do emphasise making the accumulation of wealth (when you already have a lot of it) easier.
And the US is not Sweden. If the US blocks your company's access to its market for leaving or not paying taxes, you'll most likely lose more money than the tax.
Not saying I'm pro wealth tax, I'm still having to think about it, but I do feel the US is in a position to be able to protect itself from founders leaving.
It's not hard to figure out if you try to think about it in a curious, scientific manner instead of through your ideological glasses. Many wealthy people left and Sweden lost tax income, investments and angered people. To the point where the left-wing parties realized how bad an idea it was.
https://iea.org.uk/blog/how-high-tax-sweden-abolished-its-di...
... is pointless, as it will just drive wealthy people away, into tax evasion schemes etc. while providing only tax income from the stupid. I'm in that bracket and if my country decided to introduce such a tax, I'd be somewhere else in the EU in no time.
(still expecting a haircut-like single tax grab of 10% or more from our idiot government because of their ruinous Covid-19 politics though)
By the way, I already paid 25% capital gains tax when I sold my company I'd grown over the years, at the time it was easily 20% of my total wealth.
You're just name-calling here, it's not "silly" just because you don't like the fact. If they leave, they actually leave, period. Sweden's left-wing majority abolished the inheritance tax(!) because so many wealthy people left because of it (among them, the famous IKEA founder).
It's sad that your non-arguments and whinging are being upvoted by people who "feel" the rich ought to be taxed but refuse to think about the consequences.