My gods, the Swedes came up with THAT weirdness? Just goes to show you that no country is without its flawed politics and crackpots...*sigh* Fives all round for the song though!

Know 1 can hear you dream, where are youuuuuuuuu ? Out paying your scrotum-quotum? LOL! ;-)

DKTOS, but I like the words! What a crazy law...

That is the kind of thing that gives feminists a bad name... hold on a sec, let's take this hypothetically: I'm a man (obviously!) who has to pay this tax ... if I'm already paying to beat my wife, then I might just as well get my money's worth

Please tell me this is a maverick bill which has no chance of becoming law..

No, this bill has no chances of passing. Gudrun Schyman is a known man-hater, she has her ideology, and she is scorned even amongst the Vänstrepartiet (Leftist party) - she was forced to resign on the chairperson's place as she was found guilty on a fraud. She is somewhat comparable to Andrea Dworkin, Germaine Greer or other extremists, who well deserve the name "feminazi" - she has compared the woman's lot of Sweden to be the same as that in Talibani Afghanistan. For me, Feminism means equality and not female supremacy - that is Feminazism. While I am blonde, my skin is white and I have blue eyes, I likewise scorn any racial supremacy groups. The bill actually, as you said, would only be harmful to women for the reasons you described.

Phew! (btw I think Germaine Greer might take exception - she's not *that* bad!)

DKTOS from the top of my head (and Johnny, you're on to me) but/and Susannas explanation. Gudrun is the former communist-party leader still in parliament after the court decided that the blame for that tax-freud was to be put on her accountant or something like that. The ruling party has been dependent on her partys votes in parliament for so long that they probably had enougt dirt on enought pps to squeese a few balls to get her out of that. Noone believed it of course and as a third time recidiving alcoholic (yes, in public) they had to kick her from the formal post. Now desperate to stay in the public light she's out to form some sort of feminist party and that's okay by me, they would probably mainly take votes from the communists and then both parties would fall out of parliament at next election. :-)

As for the stupid proposition if self it was pretty much shut down immediately by pps pointing out that except for herself and her group of manhating extreme feminists, most women are actually married or (since this is Sweden) at least living with a man, having a family etc and a joined economy with a man, so if the man is taxed more it would effect the whole family including the woman/women

Ooops! Guess they didn't thought of that in the ecstasy of coming up with a new idea that would give them another 15 minutes of fame.... ehhh, shame! :-(