UPDATE Switzerland will enter a basic income. The first results of the referendum shows that a large majority of voters voted against the plan. The proposal was to every adult citizen every month unconditionally to pay an amount equivalent to 2,250 euros.
© epa. According to a projection by the Swiss transmitter SRF voted whopping 78 percent of the Swiss against the basic income.
Pre being the polls already on a rejection of the proposal. Voters would fear escalating costs, a concern that was shared by the government. The plan was to pay unconditionally every adult incomes converted 2,250 euros per month. There would ancestors still substantial amounts per child (560 euros) to come.
The referendum came after supporters had collected the required one hundred thousand signatures.
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set Promoters that it is not the intention is to throw money, but see it as a new and more efficient design of the existing and expensive social security and pension systems. As Swiss farmers actually know whether a basic income and the country now has few unemployed. And besides, so say proponents, Switzerland should prepare for a future in which there is, for example, by the advent of robots is no longer enough work for everyone.
Switzerland is the first country to seriously the possibility of has considered a basic income at national level. In other countries like Finland and the Netherlands have small-scale tests done in the city of Utrecht with the idea.
In addition to the basic income Swiss also voted on other policy proposals. A majority of 66 percent approved a new asylum law properly.
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