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Old 17.02.2010, 11:02
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Re: Swiss referendum, March 2010 - any advice

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So for me it's a clear:YES to NOT cutting pensions.
Watch those double negative questions!
What do you mean about double negative questions? To vote against the rate reduction (and hence pension cut) you have to Vote NO. This seems to be confirmed by your later post quoted below - maybe you could edit & correct your first post especially as it is so 'loudly' written in Caps / bold / big font etc.

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I checked the voting papers:
So the proposal is the the pension rates are lowered. By voting 'Ja/Oui' you agree and they will be lowered, by voting 'Nein/Non' they remain as they are...
The KTipp article linked earlier in the thread was good. If I read it right it seems to say that the figure should be about 7% and was reduced last time (in 2003 because of ageing population) to 6.8% which should then be more than enough.

Pensioners don't need less to live off in future so cutting the pensioners income is not an alternative for me to balance the books. If more money is needed to finance it, then the contributions have to go up during one's working life or the government has to divert money to the pension instead of spending so much on other expenditures (army, air force etc) before making pensioners poorer.
So for me No 3 is a NO

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