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Is Switzerland full of sexist people who think "someday I'LL be rich so I don't want to tax MYSELF more, hypothetically maybe in the distant future"?
Afaik, Switzerland is a very conservative place. So that pretty much aligns with what you said.
They are so conservative that women got the right to vote federally in 1971. In one Canton they only got the right to vote at the local level in 1990 after a Supreme Court decision. They were the last Western Democracy to do so.
Native Americans didn’t get the right to vote until 1975… unless you are counting the 1990 thing they weren’t the last.
I want to be part of a normal species
Sexist is debatable but... yeah
But everyone worshiping the rich? Yeah, that is Switzerland in a nutshell. A decade or so ago I spent a week in Switzerland on holiday and... even the state funded museums kinda felt like "And then so and so developed a really cool technology that saved countless lives. AND THEN THEY GOT RICH!!! FRANCA FRANCA BILS Y'ALL!!!! And here is what they bought with it and the house they lived in and how much paper it takes to print out their monthly statement and... Oh, the tech? Whatever, nobody cares about that"
The main counter argument was that this tax would make Switzerland quite unattractive to rich people, and that they would simple leave the country so that they don't have to pay this tax. And then Switzerland would even lose tax income overall.
This argument is the knee jerk reaction to any tax proposal and should be laughed out of town as it has never ever actually happened.
It's no coincidence that they are notorious for being a tax haven for unsavory individuals with shady dealings.
Does the earth revolve around the sun?
Yes. Europe isn't the magical forward thinking land it's made it to be lol. Well, most of it isn't, anyway. Still a great place to spend some time though.
That's a statement at the level of Trump statements. Congrats, you now stand shoulder to shoulder with the pedophile in chief in sweeping statements based on a minority of people.
I don't really see women voting to have themselves be drafted.
I also don't see them voting to make rich people slightly less rich.
Do you not see that because you read the title of the article?