Second worst results in modern Swiss history
Swiss voters Sunday overwhelmingly rejected an initiative that would have scrapped the Alpine country’s value-added-tax system and replaced it with a carbon tax. Roughly 92% of voters opposed the initiative while 8% supported the measure.
The initiative would have encouraged Swiss households to use renewable energy sources, including solar and wind, which would have been exempt from taxes. The initiative, which was introduced by the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland, was designed to help lower carbon emissions and reduce global warming. –Neil Maclucas, The Wall Street Journal, 8 March 2015
A proposal replacing the main consumer tax with a new levy on non-renewable energy has suffered a blistering defeat in Sunday’s nationwide ballot. The proposal by the Liberal Green Party won only 8% of the vote, according to final official results. Sunday’s result was the second worst in modern Swiss history. —Swiss Info, 8 March 2015
h/t to The GWPF
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A Carbon Tax? When, thanks to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung the Swiss, and the rest of the world, know that this would mean being part of the world’s biggest political and intellectual fraud?
To recap, please see NZZ of 14 November 2010, Ottmar Edenhofer interview. Links and wider explanations at http://tinyurl.com/naexuho
I think this is an excellent result. What is there not to like?
They should have done the Obama-style end around with excuses later approach. This head-on free choice approach is not going to work for them.
The Swiss would do a lot better with a tax on their constitutionally sanctioned global tax cheating in place of taxing their own energy use or a VAT tax on their own consumption.
There is no global tax cheating in Switzerland.
First because for the major taxes the Swiss have their say if their should be a tax and how much. They don’t need to evade their own tax.
Second the original Swiss mentality is that you pay your debts. Do you know of any other nation where you can order something by phone and only have to pay within 30 days after you have received the item?
Bernd Palmer
March 10, 2015 at 1:53 pm
U.S. of A. – I do that nearly on a daily basis here in the U.S. for business and personal purchases and I’m not talking giving a credit card# with the order. Not criticizing or arguing with you. Your comment just kind of made me think, “Huh?!?” What is he talking about?” I’m probably not the only one who is puzzled by your remark.
New poll from Nanos Research.
Canadians don’t want to pay a carbon tax either. (17 pages)
Canada doing a poor job at trying to reduce greenhouse gases
Less than half would support taxes on fossil fuels such as gasoline or heating oil to reduce greenhouse gases
http://www.nanosresearch.com/library/polls/POLNAT-S15-T636.pdf
Notice the similarity of the words “teuer” (= expensive) and “steuer” (= tax).
These guys have their nomenclature spot on!
we already have a carbon tax. the rejection of replacing the vallue added tax with an energy tax has nothing to do with AGW denial. typical WIWT dishonesty.
http://www.bafu.admin.ch/co2-abgabe/index.html?lang=en