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Tax on Men for Violence on Women Proposed 
       STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A group of Swedish parliamentarians proposed 
levying a ''man tax'' to cover the social cost of violence against women. 
       ''It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with 
male violence against women and that has a cost,'' Left Party deputy Gudrun 
Schyman told Swedish radio on Monday. 
       ''We must have a discussion where men understand they as a group have 
a responsibility,'' said Schyman, one of the party members to sign the motion 
for debate on the new tax. 
       Sweden already has the highest taxes in the European Union as a 
percentage of gross domestic product to pay for its famous but hard-pushed 
cradle-to-grave welfare program. 
       It is also one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of gender 
equality, but Schyman said in a headline-hitting 2002 speech that 
discrimination in Sweden followed ''the same pattern'' as in Afghanistan 
under the Taliban.