Norway’s Tax List Reveals Everyone’s Wealth

Norway has a really, really bad idea—they publish the income and wealth of every taxpayer in the country. Everyone.
I not only find this troubling that people can find out everyone’s income, but that somebody would want to know.
One columnist, Jan Omdahl (a man) wrote, “Isn’t this how a social democracy ought to work, with openness, transparency and social equality as ideals?”
Um, no.
Let’s just start with the fact that this is an egregious invasion of privacy. On top of that, it’s not even democratic. Less than one-third of Norwegians want the list published.

Posted by on October 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm


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