That, and the fact that the US has more than thirty times Sweden's population. Maybe we could compare America to all of Europe and Sweden to say, North Carolina.
...Sweden has reduced public spending... ...it is cutting the corporate-tax rate from 26.3% to 22%. Compare these rates with the U.S...
FWIW the Heritage Foundation's overall economic freedom comparison ranked Sweden 18 --8 places below the US at 10.
The chart at Heritage as well as this ranking both give lie to the belief that “economic liberty is liberty.” Clearly there is more as I wouldn’t want to live in the top five “countries”. They’re all nice in their own way, but you don’t have general liberty in those top five.