@EugenHani Huh? Have you lost your mind? Cantons competing with each other to reduce taxes is one of the reasons for Switzerland’s success!! Taxes are never the answer. Just look at Germany. Seriously
Wouldn’t it be nice if people that thrive on being celebrities when they go to the grid walk on a formula one race spend 30 seconds of intellectual capital on working out how to capitalise on being a celebrity…. The interaction with apparent celebrities with a former F1 driver with a massive viewing audience on the grid today in Monaco was embarrassing…..
@Peterchen_Pan@Truly60 Exactly. The country currently is Kaputt! If one sent all the politicians on a paid vacation for a year the country would be in a better place than it has been for the last four years or so! Every single politician away on holiday. Country would be in a better place. Seriously.
@Juerg_Grossen Switzerland needs MORE energy. Nuclear has a role to play in this. Make Switzerland an island of abundant and clean energy in the center of Europe!
@Walae74 It is not like a big portion of the people are not coming to Switzerland already…. And then of the 83% of asylum cases that get rejected, 60-70% of them are still in the country and receiving benefits….
@zac1967@FDP_Liberalen@economiesuisse Because government workers and welfare recipients tend to vote left, so the BR seems intent on growing both groups of people
“The people who have been the most successful are the people who invested in Apple twenty years ago and forgot they owned it…” Ron Baron
Take a long term view on investing…. Don’t respond to day to day noise and fluctuations, leave the shares in the drawer and forget about them….. versus chasing the next quarter, the next year of results…. Interesting.
@BobgonzaleBob@RenateGautschy@zauberberg188 Exactly. It is always a head scratch how Swiss people (mostly in Zurich and Basel) are so dismissive of what has made the country strong and somehow have an inferiority complex vs the “big” Europeans who have done an absolutely terrible job….
Just think about all the “temporary” increases in MWST and income taxes that are being planned behind the scenes. Brilliant stuff, let’s make Switzerland more like Germany because that worked so well up there…. And in the end the goal is more bureaucrats and more welfare recipients getting ever less welfare, but blindly following the politicians and media….
Or you could make it easier for entrepreneurs to create businesses and create wealth for everyone. SpaceX looks like it will be valued at more than $1.5trn when it IPOs, so more than the total value of wealth of wealthy Germans (according to the figure above). SpaceX employees c. 15,000 people, well paid, meaningful jobs, pay a lot of taxes, create the future. SpaceX didn’t exist 20 years ago. Now the world is a better place for everyone because of it. Create, invent, grow, much better than take, divide, redistribute!