Re: Why Switzerland succeeds

On 7/31/26 5:55 PM, Dude wrote:
> On 7/31/2026 1:12 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:08:01 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Switzerland has 26 cantons, each with its own constitution, tax rates,
>>> and laws, and the result is one of the wealthiest, most stable countries
>>> on earth. That is not a coincidence.
>>
>> Let them try it with us politicians.
>  >
> A top-poster, eh?
> 
> The US is soaking in economic success and wealth.
> 
> Its one of the wealthiest, most stable countries on earth with 50 
> states, each with its own constitution, tax rates, and laws. The US is a 
> constitutional federal republic and a representative democracy.
> 
> The success of the United States and Switzerland is similar through 
> strong economic innovation, robust institutional frameworks, and 
> decentralized governance.
> 
> Both nations consistently rank near the top of global economic and 
> business competitiveness charts by fostering environments that reward 
> high productivity and enterprise.

cherry picking the best data from a global capitalist catastrophe is the 
best capitalists can do. capitalism doesn't stop at nation state borders 
u tard, not with global trade

end the tariffs and open the borders

  > then we can talk about how well off capitalism is doing
  >
  > #god

until then it's just liars and delusions

>>
>>> You want to understand why Swiss GDP per capita sits around $92,000
>>> while the EU average hovers near $37,000? Start here. Cantons compete
>>> for residents and businesses the same way firms compete for customers.
>>> Zug kept its corporate tax rate at roughly 11.9%, attracted commodity
>>> traders and crypto firms, and watched its population and tax revenues
>>> grow. Cantons that taxed aggressively lost mobile capital and productive
>>> citizens to neighbors with lighter burdens. This is Tiebout competition
>>> working in real life, not a textbook diagram.
>>>
>>> The federal government in Bern handles defense, monetary policy, and
>>> some foreign affairs. Everything else defaults downward. Cantons set
>>> income taxes. Communes set property levies. Citizens in Appenzell
>>> Innerrhoden voted on local laws by a show of hands in the Landsgemeinde,
>>> an open-air assembly, until 1990 for most matters. The feedback loop
>>> between decision-makers and the people paying for those decisions stays
>>> tight. That tightness disciplines spending in ways no central auditor
>>> ever will.
>>>
>>> Free market thinkers have stressed this for generations: political units
>>> must be small enough that exit is credible. When the cost of leaving a
>>> bad jurisdiction drops, politicians face real consequences for bad
>>> policy. Switzerland kept that cost low by design. A business or family
>>> in Basel-Stadt dissatisfied with cantonal policy drives forty minutes to
>>> Baselland. No visa. No language barrier. No bureaucratic labyrinth. Just
>>> a move.
>>>
>>> The EU spent decades building the opposite architecture, consolidating
>>> regulatory power in Brussels and eliminating the jurisdictional
>>> diversity that forces governments to stay honest. Switzerland refused to
>>> join. Its per-capita wealth, its low public debt, and its functional
>>> civil society arrived because the Swiss preserved the one institutional
>>> feature every centralized state destroys first: the credible right to 
>>> leave.
>>>
>>> https://x.com/Handre/status/2083122999721353311?s=20
> 

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