[Info-vax] The changing world

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-06, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2022-07-06 01:29, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>> 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.)
>

Given all the internal language differences, I've always thought of
Switzerland as 3 or 4 little countries all rolled into one :-)

Which part of Switzerland do you live in ?

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

Some Nordic countries, especially Norway, come across as having a
reasonable population so it might work there as well. However, that's
just an impression I have formed.

Simon.

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