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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by Godel_unicode on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:38AM (#11844871)
Could it be that those people think that more social programs would only be in their self-interest in the short term, and are taking a longer view (as appears to have just happened in Switzerland)?

Why is anyone who votes against short-term self-interest automatically uninformed?

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by rayvd on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:27AM (#11847470)
This.

However, I think the prevailing thinking will lean more and more towards voting for the free stuff. Someone else is paying for it, right?

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