[Info-vax] The changing world

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-07-06 01:29, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/5/2022 4:53 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2022-07-05 17:33, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <ta1dru$31g$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris 
>>> <chris-nospam at tridac.net> writes:
>>>>  From what I heard, Switzerland have their own issues with EU 
>>>> regulation,
>>>> with Swiss banking being held over a barrel by a dictatorial and
>>>> stubborn EU. How has that worked out, for a country not even a
>>>> member ?. When will people wake up, the EU is about power and control,
>>>> not democracy...
>>>
>>> Absolute power corrupts absolutely!
>>
>> I guess I'm lucky in that I live in a country where politicians have 
>> basically no power. Yay for direct democracy!
>> (But I suspect it would not work in most other countries...)
> 
> One could fear that many places the votes would be YES to
> more government spending and NO to higher taxes.

Right. And that's what's weird with Switzerland. People actually are 
responsible. They vote no to more government spending, no to longer 
vacations, and yes to higher taxes. (With that said, taxes are still 
pretty low in Switzerland.)

I don't expect that to happen if this was somewhere else, which is why I 
doubt direct democracy would work in other places.

   Johnny