Charity vs Income Tax. Is Switzerland socialist?

[Patirou]

@Bojack

I share your view. Nowadays, most of the World is socialist anyways.

I have to disagree there. Actually what is considered to be left today, was considered totally normal in conservative parties as well. There has been a real shift towards neoliberalism in the last 70y which is demonstrabable. For instance max. percantage of income tax has been lowered through the years etc. And not only in one country, this can be shown in most countries.

[Yanikuza]

@Bojack

In my ideal country the income tax would either be abolished or made linear and taxed at source. Calculating it and checking it costs a lot of useless overhead and gives the wrong incentive: you’re punished for being productive. I support taxing consumption, not income.

What do you think about the idea of a « micro-tax » which will replace the TVA and the Stamp Duty Tax ? This idea could also abolished all currently tax in Switzerland because it’s based on consumption. So if you have more money to spent instead of paying taxes, for people who don’t care about saving, they will spent more. Just an idea.

Une initiative pour un micro-impôt sur les paiements électroniques

[Bojack]

I’m all for tax solutions that are easy to understand, cheap to enforce, hard to avoid and don’t penalize positive behavior. I haven’t heard about this micro tax and don’t speak French so I can’t say more about it.