2500CHF per adult is an enormous proportion of national income to redistribute: even taking into account Switzerland's unusual prosperity we're talking about an income subsidy that's nearly 40% of per capita GDP. That's a huge sum of money that's going to have to be found via the tax system, and it's far too big to find from merely taxing the top end (especially when you're as full of millionaires and as prosperous from foreign capital flows attracted in part by your low tax regime).
It sounds likely to be a huge boon to certain categories of "idle rich" dabbling in low end residential property speculation (CHF 2500 per month average Zurich apartments aren't going to stay that way when even unemployed couples earn double that) and ironically probably penalise precisely those employees most readily exploited by employers: those without the raw ability to earn above the median wage but with the work ethic and drive to get close.
You could do it, you'd just need the world's steepest tax rates- and not marginal tax like the USA, either, where the top marginal bracket is 40% but the effective tax will be much lower. We're probably talking you take home one dollar for every three you earn.
ironically probably penalise...
This actually brings a really interesting point to mind. When everyone gets 2500CHF, the people who are currently working for 1250CHF have in a sense had their incomes slashed. They go from being infinitely richer than the unemployed, to only 50% richer (on a monthly income basis). So instead of lifting themselves high above the jobless, the same amount of work now lifts them only a little bit. I am unsure at the moment whether this can be described as decreasing the marginal utility of the income they currently earn.
2500CHF per adult is an enormous proportion of national income to redistribute: even taking into account Switzerland's unusual prosperity we're talking about an income subsidy that's nearly 40% of per capita GDP. That's a huge sum of money that's going to have to be found via the tax system, and it's far too big to find from merely taxing the top end (especially when you're as full of millionaires and as prosperous from foreign capital flows attracted in part by your low tax regime).
It sounds likely to be a huge boon to certain categories of "idle rich" dabbling in low end residential property speculation (CHF 2500 per month average Zurich apartments aren't going to stay that way when even unemployed couples earn double that) and ironically probably penalise precisely those employees most readily exploited by employers: those without the raw ability to earn above the median wage but with the work ethic and drive to get close.