Last month (May), I wrote that Switzerland was the world’s best-governed nation, based on the latest Misery Index.
The month before that (April), I wrote about Switzerland ranking #1 in the Human Freedom Index.
And the month before that (March), I wrote about the ongoing success of the country’s spending cap.
This small country gets a lot of attention because it is a role model.
It has a wide range of good policies (low taxes, private retirement savings, federalism, etc), but it also has very sensible people.
The Swiss have opportunities to engage in direct democracy, and over and over and over again they make sensible choices.
And it just happened again. Voters in Geneva were just asked whether they wanted to increase the Canton’s wealth tax.
Bastian Benrath of Bloomberg reported on the conclusive rejection of the class-warfare scheme.
Geneva voters rejected a…
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