Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters

Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by s3nnyy on Sunday June 05, 2016 @09:09AM (#11840733)

If you're referring to restaurants, that is because the waitress makes around 4000 CHF per month; if you're referring to food in supermarket that is because the clerk behind the counter gets 25 CHF / hour and not 7 EUR like in Germany.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by misja111 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:31PM (#11842652)

Not only that, but Switzerland puts import fees on quite a number of food items. For instance, Swiss meat farmers are heavily protected, and that shows when you check the prices for meat in the supermarket or in a restaurant. A steak can cost three times as much as over the border in Germany.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by herbst on Monday June 06, 2016 @03:13AM (#11845147)

I cant talk for anyone but this is something we highly value in this country. You pay more but you usually get always good quality. Its not a hit or miss like in the surrounding countries.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by jessaustin on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:44AM (#11841200)

So you're suggesting what, gardening? Gardening is great, but it's not responsive to, "the price of food in Switzerland was insane..."

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by s3nnyy on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:07AM (#11841344)

In Switzerland, imported and unprocessed food is surprisingly cheap. Veggies are maybe 20-30% more expensive than Germany.

Processed food like frozen pizza is expensive as a substantial amount of (manual?), well-paid labour goes into convenience food.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by jessaustin on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:30AM (#11841454)

In Switzerland, imported and unprocessed food is surprisingly cheap. Veggies are maybe 20-30% more expensive than Germany.

I must be misunderstanding something, because these two sentences seem to contradict. In Germany itself, "unprocessed food" is more expensive than in most of the rest of the world.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by germanier on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:47PM (#11842110)

According to Eurostat food prices in Germany are at the EU-15 average and slightly above the EU-28 avarage with fruits and vegetables slightly below.

Sure, in most of the rest of the world food is pcheaper but that compares to even lower income levels.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by cheald on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:06AM (#11841334)

My sister in Geneva sources a lot of her food out of a community garden.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by ido on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:00PM (#11842479)

I don't know how much supermarket clerks earn, but German minimum wage is 8.5 eur/h.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by illumen on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:03AM (#11840998)

So higher cost of living results in higher prices. Strange that. /s

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by rs999gti on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:14AM (#11841049)

Higher pay too.

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