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From: carranza2	10/4/2004 5:09:01 PM
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Ah, those Nordics, always good for a good laugh. The latest, a "man tax" in one of the most highly taxed places on Earth based on the fact that men are horrible to women, even in socially enlightened, liberal Sweden. Why, Swedish men are as bad as the "stone the adultresses" Talibanians. Too funny: "STOCKHOLM, Oct 4 (Reuters) - A group of Swedish parliamentarians proposed on Monday levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women. "It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with male violence against women and that has a cost," Left Party deputy Gudrun Schyman told Swedish radio. "We must have a discussion where men understand they as a group have a responsibility," said Schyman, one of the party members to sign the motion for debate on the new tax. Sweden already has the highest taxes in the European Union as a percentage of gross domestic product to pay for its famous but hard-pushed cradle-to-grave welfare program. It is also one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of gender equality, but Schyman said in a headline-hitting 2002 speech that discrimination in Sweden followed "the same pattern" as in Afghanistan under the Taliban."

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