Income Based Criminal Fines
Dagsböter roughly translates to 'daily fine' and is a form of punishment for non-violent crimes in Finland and Sweden. If you were fined 30 dagsböter, then all of your income for 30 days would be collected as a fine. This type of punishment is seen as 'financial jail' and deters people from crime no matter their wealth. Thois system led to one Finnish man who earned $11 million a year being fined the equivalent of $200,000 for speeding.
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gigantes 9 year s ago
#5 how did norway turn in to "denmark" by the end of the blurb? anyway, the program is apparently called the "sovereign wealth fund." also, the reserve per citizen is apparently somewhere over $100K, not a million. at least in the world's top currency. if the money was zimbabwean or something, i guess the number would be hard to even write down without math.
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Fenrisulven 9 year s ago
It makes us NOK millionaires, not US $ millionaires ;) Here is the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway
BTW, #18 is not 100% true. We pay more taxes than we need to the rest of the year to compensate for this. This is an old odd thing created so people could have more money for Christmas.
BTW, #18 is not 100% true. We pay more taxes than we need to the rest of the year to compensate for this. This is an old odd thing created so people could have more money for Christmas.
BTW, #18 is not 100% true. We pay more taxes than we need to the rest of the year to compensate for this. This is an old odd thing created so people could have more money for Christmas.