Can the Arctic Compete with Switzerland For Tax Refugees? Commentary: What is needed to make people move from southern latitudes and northward to the Arctic? A cut in the wealth tax for the richest believes the city council in Bodø, a large city in a Northern Norwegian context, just north of the Arctic Circle.
Removing the Wealth Tax is Not A Winning Issue in the High North Commentary: Making the question of wealth tax a winning issue in an election campaign otherwise focused on social inequality and climate is a daring move. Add a glaring lack of qualified workers, and you find some of the explanation for the Conservative’s distinct decline in Northern Norway.
It Must Be Horrible to be Rich When A Pandemic Rages Commentary: Almost one year into the pandemic, the absence of domestic political debate about anything but the pandemic itself is remarkable. If we disregard our joint despair over the USA for one second, the claim that the rich are suffering was one out of very few issues that managed to rank high on our national agenda in 2020.
