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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by transcriptase on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:22PM (#48455451)
Why shouldn’t the need for tax revenue go down as the population it’s intended to serve declines?
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by aprilthird2021 on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:18PM (#48455904)
2 main reasons

1) Populations are their most expensive at their oldest age and each subsequent generation is smaller and needs to pay for an old generation larger than their own

2) infrastructure and many of the things a government provides is not scalable down and up. A road is not (much) cheaper to maintain because less people drive on it

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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by amunozo on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:49AM (#48457012)
One word: ageing. Population declines but also age, so working population declines much more than total population.
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