Like America’s Founders, I like constitutional constraints on government and dislike untrammeled majoritarianism.
So my gut instinct is to reject Swiss-style direct democracy as a governing system.
Yet I have to give credit to the Swiss people for being very sensible when asked to vote in national referendums. Here are some recent results.
- In 2010, nearly 60 percent of the electorate rejected a class-warfare income tax proposal.
- In 2014, Swiss voters overwhelmingly killed a minimum-wage mandate.
- Also in 2014, the voters of Switzerland rejected single-payer healthcare by a landslide margin.
- And in 2015, more than 70 percent of voters rejected a federal death tax.
And don’t forget they voted by a landslide margin in favor of a spending cap back in 2001.
Now they’ve done it again.
Voters were asked today to decide whether every adult should automatically receive more than $2,500 per month as part of a…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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