Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Death tax referendum

# 6 of my comments: - Can you imagine a referendum being requested by the people to obtain a new tax? In Zurich in Switzerland in November the citizens there are being asked whether to impose a tax upon anyone involved in organizing medically assisted suicides. This is called colloquially - "death tourism". At the moment some groups do help effect such suicides - and charge as much as $8500 to do it. If successful, the referendum will result in a "tax" of more than $50,000.
The municipality of Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland. The "tax" would only affect those who had not lived in Zurich for at least one year. The report about this was mentioned in the National Post on Jan. 13.

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