SWISS voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have guaranteed everyone in the Alpine nation an unconditional basic income, according to projections by public broadcaster SRF1. The plan could have seen people in the wealthy nation of 8 million people receive about 2,500 Swiss francs ($A3,542) per month — enough to cover their basic needs.
Proponents argued that a basic income would free people from meaningless toil and allow them to pursue more productive or creative goals in life.
Critics said the plan would explode the state budget and encourage idleness, arguments that appear to have convinced voters. Based on a partial count of results from 19 Swiss cantons (states) on Sunday, the gfs.bern polling group calculated that 78 per cent of voters opposed the measure against 22 per cent in favour......To Read More......
My Take - My mother worked hard for all of her life and made the sacrifices necessary to have financial success. She's lived her life as a capitalist for all her working years and can now maintain herself at 91. She also has never found a Democrat she didn't think was the next sainted FDR. She has trouble with me telling her FDR didn't save us from the Great Depression - he created it. She really has trouble with me saying FDR was a traitor. We don't talk much about these things anymore. But at least I can understand her feelings due to how much suffering she saw during the Great Depression. However mom did understand one thing that should be as clear as crystal to everyone. People have to work for what they have.
She's often said if we took all the money in the world and divided it equally in five years the rich would be rich again and the poor would be poor again. Of course that's a generalization, but I have no doubt it's a largely accurate description of reality. How much we have or how much we make is important. But how much we spend and on what - is far more important.
If the Swiss had passed this they would have found a massive reduction in their workforce and even more complaining about what they have not being enough. Leftism is an affliction of the mind, and those promoting this kind is insanity are lunatics trying to be in charge of the asylum.
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