In most places, if you’re a child or spouse of the deceased, you don’t pay any tax at all on it.

How are your gun laws structured? Could you briefly describe the purchasing process? Do private citizens have to store their firearms in a centralized location or can they keep them secured at home?

As a Swiss citizen, owning a gun is pretty easy. I’m not an expert and don’t own one, but afaik to buy a gun, one needs to do a background check and have some basic training with it. You can keep your gun at home, but carrying (hidden or open) is only allowed in exceptional cases, e.g. for professional reasons, and must be allowed in a court decision.

I hope these answers cover it more or less, feel free to ask more :-)

How do you feel about Switzerland’s semi direct democracy governance?

Now I’m not sure which part you mean, the direct voting or our parliament / government? In short, I think the biggest flaw which is directly a part of the system is our Ständerat and Ständemehr, which is basically like the US Senate, where the voice of a person from Uri counts 500 times as much as the voice of someone from Zurich.

Then there are the problems outside of it, where I’d say the biggest one is Corporate money influencing voting and elections.

And while sometimes misused, I still like our direct voting on issues. In the past 10 years we (from the left) were able to prevent multiple things decided by the parliament thanks to this system and even succeeded in winning a proposal to raise pensions for poorer people, which (winning a equality issue proposal) has never happened before in Swiss history.

As someone already commented, there is narrative that the free market is the reason for Switzerland’s success. A narrative pushed by corporate media and burguois politicians of course, but imo also not completely untrue.

But I also want to point to a different reason, which is our value system. Due to historical reasons, similar to the US, there is a strong emphasis on personal freedom, usually overshadowing solidarity and equality. A big part of that is for many people the right to own private property and to play as little taxes on it as possible.

Then there’s also protentatisms ideas about work etc.

Good lord Silberschmidt is probably one of my most hated persons in Swiss politics.

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The country? No. But remember we’ve always been (majority) governed by parties that are right-wing corporate lackeys. There’s a lot of criticism of these practices from the left and even the center (sometimes), but those critics are unable to get majorities.

For context, it was clear from the outset that the right wing-free market gov would reject this. The proposed tax was submitted by the Juso (young socialist party) and it’s pretty clear that it will lose a national vote as well by a large margin (as the Swiss voting population is worse free market brained than even the US).

Now why would I consider this still a good move by the Juso? Because it brings up debate. About inheritance tax, but also about the injust society in general and how rich people don’t contribute their part. And in the long term, it moved the overton window to strech further to the left.

I’m Swiss and open to answer questions if you have any.

After reading that article, this feels like an insult to bed bugs.

Resultate:

Autobahnausbau NEIN

Gesundheitsversorgung JA

Beide Mietrechtsvorlagen NEIN

Anyone who knows Von Leyens carrer should know it will go more like this:

Von Leyen: “How much will you pay me and my family to do that?”

Musk: “X amount”

Von Leyen: “Consider it done.”

Von Leyens picture should be in the wikipedia entry for “failing upwards”

i love how “expert wonder how that should work” is just there and in the article they state that VW still paid out billions in dividends. they just want to make more profit.

tbf a big reason for our high share of non-citizens is just that citizenship is much harder to acquire than in most other places

Ich wünsche euch alles Beste aus der Schweiz, hoffentlich bleibt euch die FPÖ als Kanzlerpartei erspart.

lol at this point im absolutely convinced you’re just a troll

Denies man-made climate change Happy about Floride attacking LGBTQ rights “the liberal media is left” conspiracism

“How can you say I’m on the right? 🤡🤡🤡”

Yeah I’m done with this conversation.

Sorry but your comment history really just proves the point of conservatives and fascists masquerading (badly) as centrists. You’re doing that exact thing. All you’ve shared on this site paints you as being far right, but the moment someone points that out you feel unfairly treated. That’s bust the fascist playbook of using civility as a shield.

And no, not all centrists are right wingers in disguise, you sure seem like one though.

Okay, I’ll bite, you wanna share some of those left of center opinions? Because as some other commenter pointed out, you comment history makes you look like far right.

I don’t know what long distance means in this regard, but i suspect everything on the level of an IC. We do have some routes that take over 4 hours though, lots of mountains to go around ;-).

I’m now taking digital databases and write them by hand in an unnecessarily vomplicated fashion to paper while making up a story for each entry.

Tbf he didn’t go to Russia to join the military. Similar to ther stories that I’ve heard, he was offered a job in Russia, and then forced into the military.