Swiss to vote on basic income benefit

[SunsetBengal]

(05-05-2016, 10:31 PM)Benton Wrote: The concept isn't a bad idea. For all the complaining people do over social services, there are some places where retailers wouldn't be able to stay in business if there was no social aide. I was the night manager at a grocery store in college. A quarter of our sales were WIC checks.

$2,600 sounds like a big chunk, but I don't know how that compares to their economy.

That is for each adult, each child would also get $650/mo.  That makes $6500/mo. for a typical family of 4.  For those making above that, up to that amount is tax free..  That Nation must be wicked rich to be able to even consider that sort of hand out..