if you pay them, they will come...Funded ski bumming would be great!
They should have held out for $25,000 a month.
if you pay them, they will come... I propose to fund it with a $2,800 per month flat tax.
Note that Switzerland is also very strict as to gets to live in the country.
Why not $280,000,000 per month?
Who knows what America would be like today if JFK had not been elected, leading to Vietnam and the 1965 immigration act and unionizing federal employees and permanently emptying the mental hospitals to create the homeless.
Ain’t being equal fun? sarc/
So just how many Swiss are below the poverty line? Isn’t the crime rate in Switzerland practically non existent? And how many Amish are within their borders?
look for prices on basic goods and services to rise at least $2800 a month.
Switzerland can afford it. Switzerland can afford a lot. Everybody in the world wants to give Switzerland some of his money.
I would take 18 Hundred a month and all the cheese I could eat!
In he 1950’s when I first visited there our 25 cent piece (quarter) and their Frank, both silver coins of the same size, were worth the same. Today 2500 SF worth $2800 ?
Should have held on to those SFs.....
By by Switzerland.
Certainly most will. It would be stupid not to. I wonder how their immigration laws are?
A little perspective from someone who lives and works in Switzerland:
The average wage in Switzerland is ~6K CHF. As a matter of fact, my daughter who just became an RN earns 6K starting.
So, no one is going to quit their job to get a free 2,5k!
I don’t know where the author gets the idea that the Social Insurances pay for “universal health care” - they don’t! That is paid for individually, but there is a universal requirement. My plan (Family of four, high deductables / franchises) runs at well over 800/month).
From your monthly check -
5% is withheld for “Social Security”
1% for Unemployment and
1% for non work related accidents
another 7% is normally withheld for your pension (varies)
taxes are NOT withheld, but you are “encouraged” to pay into an account monthly to cover the taxes due ~10%
All told, you lose at least 30% (including Health Insurance).
Prices (in Francs):
Gas = 6.75/gallon
Childrens Levis = 130 (non brand can be cheap ~50)
Beef Cubes for stew 9.30/lb (at a discount grocery)
These types of initiatives are raised almost every year by the “young socialists” who only need to get 100k people to sign a petition to get it on the ballot. Most never make it into law. Currently they are pushing a 1:12 plan which would limit the pay of the highest paid person in the company to 12x what the least paid person receives. It appears doomed. Apparently enough people have realized that the CEO’s would simply restructure the companies and / or outsource the “cheap” jobs ....
How is this any differnt here, it’s just under multiple programs we have welfare, food stamps, housing, obamacare, social security and disability
In the short run, this may help some in poverty, but in the long run it will destroy the Swiss virtues of hard work & personal responsibility.
As a college student, I spent a summer working in a bakery in Switzerland. At lunch one day, an old worker & I talked. He said to me, “the difference between the Swiss & the Americans is that the Swiss live to work, while the Americans work to live”.
Right or wrong, the Swiss are coming around to our way of thinking. IMO, it’s a big mistake.