Share the wealth

[Gonz]

Stupid liberal mentality

Posted: October 7, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Swedish lawmakers have proposed a new tax on those who happen to be men that would go to paying the societal costs of abuse toward women.

The idea by the Parliament's Left Party was to be debated this week, reported the London Daily Telegraph. The paper cites an Amnesty International report earlier this year that found violence against women increased almost 40 percent in the nation during the 1990s and that 20 to 40 women are battered to death in Sweden each year.

"It must be clear to all we have a gigantic social problem and cost in men's violence toward, women and we must discuss how we are going to pay for it," Gudrun Schyman, the party's former leader, told the paper.

"We have to have a discussion so that men understand that they have a collective financial responsibility."

 

[Rose]

Lemme get this straight, sometimes my small brain gets me confuzzled. These officials are worried about how to pay for the abuse --- not that the abuse is going on or how to stop it?

 

[Gonz]

collective financial responsibility

 

[Rose]

Jeeze. Talk about applying a band-aid when surgery is needed.

 

[Leslie]

They're not gonna stop it...that's just bad gene pools in action.

But they can't bill an entire half of a population for something like this.
a) Women beat men too
b) Not every man beats his woman.

It's a small party with few seats...it's hopeless that it'd ever be passed anyway I should think.

 

[chcr]

Half-baked, knee-jerk ideas are universal.

 

[Professur]

What defeats me is how did someone stupid enough to propose something like this get voted it. And then I remember. He got voted in by the large number of people even more stupid then he is.