Take a bow--well done!
Posted on 03/09/2015 8:29:41 PM PDT by Signalman
Swiss voters Sunday overwhelmingly rejected an initiative that would have scrapped the Alpine country’s value-added-tax system and replaced it with a carbon tax. Roughly 92% of voters opposed the initiative while 8% supported the measure.
The initiative would have encouraged Swiss households to use renewable energy sources, including solar and wind, which would have been exempt from taxes. The initiative, which was introduced by the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland, was designed to help lower carbon emissions and reduce global warming.
A proposal replacing the main consumer tax with a new levy on non-renewable energy has suffered a blistering defeat in Sunday’s nationwide ballot. The proposal by the Liberal Green Party won only 8% of the vote, according to final official results. Sunday’s result was the second worst in modern Swiss history
The Swiss, living in an alpine zone, know that loosing electricity in the winter could have sever or fatal consequences. They do not relish the idea of taxes on a critical resource and the likelihood of a forced move to unstable “green” sources that could leave them dead or suffering.
Well, seems to me the issue was full of..........HOLES. You know like Swiss cheese. Good for them. Smarter than your average green weenie.
You’re not supposed to ask ordinary people whether they want to go green or not. You’re supposed to jam it down their throats, because they’re too stupid to know what’s best for themselves.
Take a bow--well done!
How long before a ‘federal’ court throws it out?
They do not own or think about guns in an American 2nd Amendment kind of way. First, the Swiss government requires ownership, second, the guns are to repel foreign invaders not counterpoise their own tyrannical government, and third, guns are not usually even stored on the owners' premises.
resentation Prof. Murry Salby in Hamburg on 18 April 2013
Murray Salby: “In significant part, CO2 is controlled by global temperature.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROw_cDKwc0
[NB: Intro in German, The lecture is in English. —E]
Excerpts from Murry Salby’s Slide Show
Summary
Man’s CO2 emissions are two orders of magnitude less than the natural sources and sinks of CO2. Our emissions are not the main driver of temperature change. It is the other way about.
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Natural temperature change and variability in soil moisture, not anthropogenic emission, is the chief driver of changes in CO2 concentration. These changes may act as a feedback contributing some warming but are not its principal cause.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/22/excerpts-from-salbys-slide-show/
Today, enlisted men are issued M57 automatic assault rifles and officers are given pistol, Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use. (Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)
After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation. Starting in the 1994, the government will give ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.
When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.
Reservists are encouraged to buy military ammunition (7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols, which is sold at cost by the government, for target practice
This is just plain not true.
While I have known only a few Swiss citizens, they all stored their military rifles at home.
Rifles are increasingly stored at central locations in the town,
The Swiss people have already adopted some very stringent environmental regulations.
For example, motor sports are OUTLAWED in totality.
92% = the Swiss Sanity Index.
Would you support that claim with a link?
Just what’s in #14 — from an article posted here a couple of years ago.
That could be a change from 1% to 2%. It doesn’t mean “guns are not usually even stored on the owners’ premises.”
It was a much more substantial trend than that and involved entire geographic areas (cantons?).
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